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Originally Posted by Hugh
But you are missing the point that Ofcom are making - they tie up VOD rights for Movies from the six major studios, and then do not release them on the VOD platform (only a percentage of them).
They do this to be, in Ofcom's view, anti-competitive - they buy up the rights not to show the films on VOD, but to stop others doing so.
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I do understand that point. I made the point in an earlier post that VOD viewing is likely to become more mainstream with a number of big organisations wishing to make the move into VOD for these movies.
As it becomes more mainstream the VOD rights become more lucrative and Sky have more competition. So either Sky make some money from this or they get beaten to the rights by someone who can make money from them.
But either way competitive forces eventually prevail. Thats how the market should work and not through meddling by Ofcom.