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Free Streaming Service Challenges Existing Market

posted by martyb on Tuesday January 28 2020, @03:07AM   Printer-friendly
from the check-it-out! dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

How do you beat the content producers at their own game? By creating a new model. Kanopy is a streaming service that charges Australian libraries for content — instead of users — making for a sustainable model for distributing content locked by copyright laws. By charging government-backed entities for distribution rights, the content makers obtain the money they are after while the public has limited access to the movies they want to see making for a win-win situation.

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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by EEMac on Tuesday January 28 2020, @02:49PM

    by EEMac (6423) on Tuesday January 28 2020, @02:49PM (#950065)

    > In the US corporations abused their way into being declared people. People die.

    This. 1000 times this. Corporations:
    1. Can't be jailed in any meaningful sense
    2. Can dissolve and reform with almost the exact same structure in place, but be considered a completely different legal entity
    3. Have far more money ("speech") than any one individual
    4. Have no family ties or personal connections
    5. Can pay basically any fine, because someone else (customers) always pays the bill

    Whatever that is, it doesn't sound like a person.

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