Seriously. There was a major antitrust breakup a half century ago where the movie companies famously were forbidden from owning the production, marketing and distribution of their products. So they all sold off the theaters and let those be independent.
So how the fuck does Disney have its own TV channel and disney+, which has exclusive distribution of most of their content. Same question for Netflix.
I would imagine that they could have what you might describe as "mind control" over the major percentage of people in the west based on how much mental stimulus time they occupy in peoples waking hours.
Netflix at the time of creation was technically not a movie house. They weren't doing productions until about 3-5 years into it (whenever they decided to drop DVD's from the majority of plans). It's only after the service got streaming and that started to get popular licensing films that they decided to do TV/movies.
Seriously. There was a major antitrust breakup a half century ago where the movie companies famously were forbidden from owning the production, marketing and distribution of their products. So they all sold off the theaters and let those be independent.
So how the fuck does Disney have its own TV channel and disney+, which has exclusive distribution of most of their content. Same question for Netflix.
Disney also owns news outlets and local tv stations, and newspapers. It's en enormous media behemoth
Edit: digestible info
Edit2: even more
Jesus. Hulu and ESPN too... (I read the link) And that doesn't even get into the theme parks and connected hotels.
I would imagine that they could have what you might describe as "mind control" over the major percentage of people in the west based on how much mental stimulus time they occupy in peoples waking hours.
And don't forget Disney Jr. Hot dog, hot dog, hot diggity dog. 🎶
Oh wow, I didn't know they owned Bossa Studios. Guess Disney money is bankrolling the meme-terrible game industry.
Netflix at the time of creation was technically not a movie house. They weren't doing productions until about 3-5 years into it (whenever they decided to drop DVD's from the majority of plans). It's only after the service got streaming and that started to get popular licensing films that they decided to do TV/movies.
Didn't they overturn it or something like a year ago?