In the video games space, the acquisition means Warner Bros. Games and its subsidiaries—including Avalanche Software, NetherRealm Studios, Portkey Games, Rocksteady Studios, TT Games, WB Games Boston, WB Games Montreal, WB Games New York, and WB Games San Francisco—will soon be under the Netflix banner.
At this rate there will only be two media companies in America next year, and then one the year after.
Thankfully a lot of people have a movie making machine in their pockets (cell phone). Content will eventually be produced by the masses, competing against the behemoth media companies. Barring that, local community theatre productions. Maybe get a cheap CD player or two and put it in the back closet and then start collecting CD’s again. There is more stuff in media history to consume than there is new stuff being produced. A lot of it is better.
And it will be owned by one of the many monopolies.
Put on in a theatre owned by Ticketmaster.
Some people drink Pepsi some people drink Coke, but that wacky morning DJ says democracies a joke.
I hate the cynicism though tbh. If it wasnt for “intellectual property” this bullshit wouldn’t matter nearly as much.
Is it cynicism when it’s the reality around us?
And there’ll still be too many damn streaming services.
there absolutely will, and they will constantly shift what is available on where. Imagine owning most of them, and having people constantly pay you by switching services because they dont have what one wishes to watch. This is likely why those services do this, I cant imagine any other way to make profit from driving customers away from your service.