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Originally Posted by Rochard
The movie industry is doing the same. We have Netflix and Hulu and a few others, and now HOB just announced they will selling their content online. Why hasn't the big movie companies gotten together and made something like Netflix?
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Netflix, Hulu, etc... etc... etc...
The cold hard facts of the matter is you can exploit the shit out of the Internet but it'll only make a difference equal to that of a piss in ocean.
Music, television, books, movies or porn. If you're actually in the business of actually producing something then it doesn't matter how you exploit it or what business approach you pursue because at the end of the day you're going to earn a fraction of what a traditional-old-fashioned business model did. So there's no boat to miss, it's having to deal with the fact that you've gone from sailing on a luxury ocean liner to paddling a canoe.
Youtube, Facebook, etc. All the companies that have gotten rich and powerful because of the Internet have never been saddled with the expense of producing the content they benefit from. If Facebook had to pay the thousands of women that upload pictures of themselves that keep the millions of horny men trolling their profiles, facebook would be broke with a week. It's the same if youtube had to produce the content that millions of people watch, tumblr for the millions of gifs and all the other sites.
So adapt or die??
Adaption is layoffs, downsizing, outsourcing to 3rd world nations, producing shit sensationalistic garbage and taking someone's money then going out of business and therefore screwing them over.