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Originally Posted by OLD BOY
Well, I'm having some trouble understanding your point, too. You say that Disney and the like will lose money by taking their programmes back for themselves, which is true, and it's already happening to Netflix. What you are forgetting is that the streaming services will be recouping that money with the new subscriptions they will be getting as the new services roll out.
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What you are forgetting is that streaming services
could recoup that money with new subscriptions. There is reasonable risk in giving up guaranteed income for a contract period then relying on your own sales.
Where does the 'new' money come from? Pay-tv has a fixed pot of revenue to be shared out - content providers going down the direct to subscriber route is just a different way of controlling the distribution of it.