On 29/Nov/19 13:14, Brandon Butterworth wrote:
And try busting or buying each other as they fight to be the only one.
Aggregators get away with it as there is some value in not having to mess around buying each item individually but they get greedy and there is easy profit in selling bundles of exclusive stuff you won't use.
If they'd stick to just being frictionliess marketplaces for buying any content you want they'd be providing a useful service (as IXP help in peering).
The trajectory for all of this is that, ultimately, if the VoD providers do not come together and federate or make a solid plan, we'll end up right back where we started - content piracy. I will cop to being an avid Napster user way back in 1999. For several years since, my main music sources have been legitimate - iTunes, Apple Music, Beatport and Traxsource. All these are, as you say, aggregators; and in the end, they will be the winners. I have zero desire to pirate music - also, I'm a DJ :-). I also have zero desire to pirate video content because Netflix + my pay-TV service give me everything I want: - They are in Africa. - Performance is great. - Uptime is great. - Content is generally good. - Content is plenty. - Price is reasonable I'm happily forgoing exclusive content on another VoD service, even if it meets most of the above. That said, if they can integrate into a single source, happily paying slightly more for the benefit. Mark.