Class Action against media "ownership"

[AZ.]

I'm being neither optimistic or pessimistic, but rather acting on data. I've been consuming content this way for more than 15 years. There has never been a merger or consolidation that I can point to that ever impacted this use case, in my experience.

It's like complaining about data usage or pricing or something - it's a solved problem, I have unlimited data, and if it gets too expensive then I will change my habits and spend my money elsewhere. I won't raise the specter of data usage and pricing in every topic that it's remotely relevant in. That's how I see the point of consolidation - it's not new, and hasn't impacted the space to date, so where is the reason to be concerned? If something changes as a result (fewer players, so trying to raise prices, for example) then I speak with my wallet and rely more on streaming libraries and promotions. If streaming services are too expensive, again, I speak with my wallet and subscribe more precisely instead of maintaining a library of services to access when things were cheaper.

Yet we have never seen such consolidation on any level like this. Have you?
All it takes is one of them to pull it, then what you bought is no longer yours. Correct?
So if they do that you only have one place to go to get that TV show or movie.
Its all about leverage, and getting the most profit.
Havent we seen it with local broadcasting?
Hold back a few hundred channels, is dozens of cities?
That is a huge reasons prices shot up over the last 20 years.

 

[navychop]

Its in the article, I should have edited it.

Mergers and Acquisitions of Major Film Studios

What does Disney own? Who owns Universal Pictures? Check out our timeline of film production company acquisitions to learn who owns what.

wyomingllcattorney.com

Still can't read the chart. But it's in the text.

 

[meStevo]

Yet we have never seen such consolidation on any level like this. Have you?
All it takes is one of them to pull it, then what you bought is no longer yours. Correct?
So if they do that you only have one place to go to get that TV show or movie.
Its all about leverage, and getting the most profit.
Havent we seen it with local broadcasting?
Hold back a few hundred channels, is dozens of cities?
That is a huge reasons prices shot up over the last 20 years.

There are already studios that don't participate in Movie's Anywhere, it sets a higher bar for if I buy their titles. That's the closest to any of that.

The more they make their content harder to watch or buy, the less they sell. It's not in their best interest to hoard these after their theatrical releases, they make money from subscriptions and licensing. Entire libraries shift from streaming service to streaming service, but to date nobody's suddenly invalidated PVOD purchases that I'm aware of, and it wouldn't make any sense to do.

 

[savarese04]

The absolute most that will happen here is some lawyer will get $50M and the settlement will be 5 cents per movie. Then they will change the "buy" button to a "perpetual license" button.

None of this should be new to anyone purchasing digital media, whether it's a book, a gamve, or movie, a song - your purchase lasts as long as the service you purchased it from exists.

 

[AZ.]

There are already studios that don't participate in Movie's Anywhere, it sets a higher bar for if I buy their titles. That's the closest to any of that.

The more they make their content harder to watch or buy, the less they sell. It's not in their best interest to hoard these after their theatrical releases, they make money from subscriptions and licensing. Entire libraries shift from streaming service to streaming service, but to date nobody's suddenly invalidated PVOD purchases that I'm aware of, and it wouldn't make any sense to do.

5 studios controlling 80% of all content? Like I said your optimistic.....why sell it to a separate party?...you want to see everything Disney does...ABC, ESPN, ect....you need to buy right from us.....