Comments on: It’s the Content Providers, Silly. (link) http://www.multiplexcomic.com/blog/2011/09/26/its-the-content-providers-silly-link/ Bonus comics, movie reviews, and random rants Mon, 13 May 2013 10:32:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Gordon http://www.multiplexcomic.com/blog/2011/09/26/its-the-content-providers-silly-link/#comment-1074 Gordon Mon, 26 Sep 2011 23:45:14 +0000 http://www.multiplexcomic.com/blog/?p=1139#comment-1074 They’re only scared to death of streaming because they get no royalties from them, unlike DVDs. Do they deserve them? Absolutely. Why don’t they have them? Because of the content providers (a.k.a. the distributors who own the copyrights to most of these films and movies, not the people who actually create them).

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.multiplexcomic.com/blog/2011/09/26/its-the-content-providers-silly-link/#comment-1073 Anonymous Mon, 26 Sep 2011 19:58:00 +0000 http://www.multiplexcomic.com/blog/?p=1139#comment-1073 Who are the “content providers” really though?  The Writer’s Guild.  The Director’s Guild.  The Screen Actor’s Guild.  And any number of support functions that go along with it.  Content producers have worked long and hard to wring what royalties they can from the media empires, and they’re scared to death of all you can eat content buffets and what it will do to their revenue streams.  They *want* their checks to keep coming in when they’re 95 years old and can’t work.  People complaining that they can’t derive content from 70 year old works are no match for the starving retired artists still collecting royalties from said work when it comes to Congressional pity parties.

]]> By: Kevin Bates http://www.multiplexcomic.com/blog/2011/09/26/its-the-content-providers-silly-link/#comment-1072 Kevin Bates Mon, 26 Sep 2011 19:47:00 +0000 http://www.multiplexcomic.com/blog/?p=1139#comment-1072 Yeah, but if service providers (like netflix, amazon streaming, cable companies, or whatever else) go bankrupt or make drastically reduced money because everyone is sick of dealing with them, the content providers have no one to sell their content to for ridiculous prices.

They have a supply of movies, and we have a demand to get them.  If there is no longer a demand, they just sit on all their movie rights.  I think most people are aware to some extent that service providers are being jerked around by content providers.  But refusing to buy will ultimately hurt BOTH bottom lines.

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