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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: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 28 2020, @03:30AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 28 2020, @03:30AM (#949815)

    Lots of USAians have been reading ebooks from the library...to the point that the publishers are limiting the library licenses with time-outs, making the libraries buy more licenses, etc.

    We'll see how long this lasts down in Oz...

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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by c0lo on Tuesday January 28 2020, @03:57AM

    by c0lo (156) on Tuesday January 28 2020, @03:57AM (#949841) Journal

    Lotsa USians pay for their health care and drugs through their nose.
    We'll see how long the Aussies will avoid the same, but it's likely to be quite a long time.

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