Exactly, ‘streaming wars’. With huge entertainment conglomerates like Mega-Disney and others, it’s like they never saw a money-making entertainment enterprise they didn’t want to possess for the quest of the longest green. It’s in the genes of these mega-companies to become or emulate the ‘ there can be only one! ’ behavior effects, with cheery news releases and infotainment placements for their products and a constant shade of newsy comment placements about competitors products. I mean, just switch on your mobile handset and the tsunami of ad placement dystopia begins in earnest.

A big part of this (now) discussion is to create the issue of binging because someone else had the balls to binge first and the so far also-rans desperately need to catch up to maintain their iffy revenue streams into the future. That is, we don’t have all the binge subscribers so we need to do anything to put the brakes on say Netflix while we figure out where our asses are at.

Obviously, there is this whole segment of bingers that don’t want anything to do with commercial tv/movies or take on yet another subscription obligation. So what is really left for other entertainment conglomerates but some convoluted old school strategy known as ‘buy em up and shut em down’, easy peasy. Of course, a big tactic is to buy up all available suppliers and contributors to Netflix and let them bleed out if possible. Stuff like that, I believe mega-Disney is currently attempting this strategy, no wonder certain big-ass gamblers want to keep interest rates low, at least for the mega-gamblers.

A different point: To the authors, if there was a Nobel prize for apt descriptions of entertainment business models you’ all would be booking a flight to Stockholm, “managed dissatisfaction” unanimous winner! So real.