It’s actually a story about Hollywood labor compensation, and the growing power of streaming services.
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How Amazon Controls Virtually Everything You Watch
Amazon Web Services delivers almost all filmed media in the United States to your screen of choice. How are they leveraging that power?
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What Amazon’s Purchase of MGM Is Really About
The company wants to control pricing on everything, and funnel as many transactions to itself as possible. Here’s how the MGM deal does that.
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Islands in the Stream
Musicians are in peril, at the mercy of giant monopolies that profit off their work.
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Spotify Is Doing to Podcasting What Facebook and Google Did to Blogs
By acquiring the most popular shows, Spotify wants to dominate the industry, and make it impossible for newer voices to emerge.
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Disney Launches a Blitzkrieg in the Streaming Wars
And it’s doing so by leveraging its market power in extreme, perhaps illegal ways.
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It’s Time to Break Up Disney
The company known for Mickey Mouse is now a sprawling conglomerate in entertainment and beyond, and that’s a big problem.