Why does this slow motion train wreck continue? Is everyone in on the piracy joke and just protecting player contracts now?
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Replying to @wycats
Why do large scale rackets endure (and capture pols/regulators)? Money talks, esp. with too little competition. Incumbents hate competition.
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Replying to @BrendanEich
It's not totally clear to me who, overall, is making the money here...
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Replying to @wycats
Le petit et grand rentiers: DRM vendors for sure. Incumbents from content to browser powers too, by taxing competition and inter-locking in.
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Replying to @BrendanEich
Sure, but why is any of this in the interest of CONTENT creators. It's a mystery to me. Rentiers persuade them of dumb piracy arguments?
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Replying to @wycats @BrendanEich
In my concrete case, why does HBO benefit from allowing Xfinity to block my access on TiVo?
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Replying to @wycats @BrendanEich
Doesn't Xfinity still have leverage over HBO in terms of their ownership of infrastructure? Netflix seems like an instructive example
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Replying to @knowtheory @wycats
Let me think, Comcast vs. Time-Warner. Disney > Comcast > T-W, but close call! HBO has content (GoT) which is king, but they're no Netflix.
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Replying to @BrendanEich @knowtheory
Right, but ultimately it's HBO who decides to add the DRM, which gives Comcast the ability to pull this crap.
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Replying to @wycats @knowtheory
That's an unintended consequence & negative externality. The smart H'wood studio execs I talked to know it hurts: unhappy users torrenting.
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It's just bizarre that this ship can't turn.pic.twitter.com/XXiNvzay5R
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