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For the past few years, the big TV networks made easy money selling their reruns to Netflix.
Now they're having second thoughts.
So are they ready to pull back on sales to Netflix and other digital services in the hopes of keeping their core business intact?
Investors will be looking for an answer to that question this week and next, as most of the big entertainment companies report their Q3 earnings and take questions from analysts. But several key TV executives have already signaled that they're going to stop selling their best stuff to digital services — particularly Netflix.
Binge-viewing has been established as the new method to consume content--that is the genie they need to stuff back in the bottle.
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Can the TV Guys Put the Netflix Genie Back in the Bottle?
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(Score: 5, Insightful) by K_benzoate on Thursday November 05 2015, @02:02AM
They really can't, can they? Thanks to the content cartels dragging their feet and choosing to litigate instead of innovate the standard for my generation became: all content, free, without limits, immediately. You really can't make a business model out of that, but that's not my problem.
"But people will stop making content!"
Yeah, ok. Sure. We'll talk when that happens about how to fix it. But I'll wager that conversation never happens. I'm as certain as I can be that humans will keep producing compelling art for as long as they exist.
Climate change is real and primarily caused by human activity.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 05 2015, @02:27AM
Tough shit for them, but that's exactly what Wall Streeters and business executives think when they hear IT people wail about outsourcing, and the shelf life of IT skills steadily decreasing as new generations of platforms and software pile on top of one another.
If you don't have empathy for people in a different line of work, don't expect any in return.
(Score: 4, Informative) by edIII on Thursday November 05 2015, @02:42AM
I don't have any empathy for Hitler and his work (or solution), and yep, I don't expect any empathy from Hitler anytime soon.
Don't act as if the lines of "work" are equal. I have zero empathy for sociopaths that are no longer able to abuse people as they once did, and as a result, have less millions than they use to. You allude to the Golden Rule and admonish us for lacking empathy for Big Entertainment and its executives, but completely fail to realize that your proposed victims completely lack all empathy and adherence to the Golden Rule in the first place.
It will not be empathy that they are lacking for us, but any measurable levels of respect for others, decency, integrity, ethics, etc.
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 05 2015, @02:53AM
I accept bitcoin.
- Godwin
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Thursday November 05 2015, @07:25PM
I accept bitcoin.
- Godwin
And if we don't pay our royalties what possible incentive will there be for Godwin to propose more laws?
(Score: 3, Informative) by jdavidb on Thursday November 05 2015, @03:25PM
Yeah, ok. Sure. We'll talk when that happens about how to fix it. But I'll wager that conversation never happens. I'm as certain as I can be that humans will keep producing compelling art for as long as they exist.
Exactly! I saw the same thing about blocking ads on the web as well.
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