Why aren't streaming media contracts negotiated like 'you will provide us the 4K copies of the entire series; we will stream it forever and you will get X% of the profit..margin...etc in perpetuity' (lemmy.world)

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rather than this stupid fucking snip snap game where, instead of, as a user being able to buy into a company that's building a massive, marvelous, library-of-alexandria-core archive of every good show ever made, you're paying into some shitty ephemeral bullshit made by stupid greedy dickheads who have no fucking sense

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[-] Phen@lemmy.eco.br 53 points 1 year ago

Because nobody knows for sure how much a show will be worth in the future and everyone is afraid of losing or wasting potential money.

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