On Fri Nov 29, 2019 at 12:41:50PM +0200, Mark Tinka wrote:
It's either naive or presumptuous of any VoD provider to think that they can each have 100% of the market
Yes, rent seekers are going to seek rent so they will try and be the tier 1 content provider and all the other content has to pay them to be seen. They hope to lock up internet as they did with cable
More so, that sharing the market through fragmentation is a viable way to guarantee their going concern over the long term.
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). brandon