said by IluvMoney:Netflix looks to be moving in to that super conglomerate category like Comcast, with the conflicts of interest making them untrustworthy moving forward.
Comcast gets hammered for both delivering(cable systems) and creating content(NBC & other content creators). Will Netflix be treated with the same suspicion and demands for being broken up?
Netflix acts as a 3rd party content aggregator for content created by others and now also as a content creator. Ultimately this leads to conflicts of interest as to who gets priority treatment.
Will any of the tech press start calling them out on this conflict going forward or will they continue to get a free pass as some poor victim of the cable companies?
What Netflix is doing was done by HBO way back in the 80s. There is no conflict of interest for a network that starts out buying 3rd party owned content, to then start ordering original productions. Every single pay tv service and basic cable channel has done this as well. Again, for years before there ever was a Netflix.
Netflix creating originals is due entirely to the studios (the ones that own, or are owned by, comglomerates that own cable & pay tv channels), selling recent theatricals to pay channels under exclusive licenses which block competitors from also acquiring the same. This is not a new phenomenom, selling exclusive pay tv rights to pay services has been done for decades. They (the studios) are also attacking NF by refusing to sell older programming to them that they place out on the market for other monthly subscription services to buy.
The hate Comcast gets is due entirely to how they treat their customers and run their systems, not because they own a studio that creates content for themselves. Netflix is an independent company that does 2 things, rent dvds thru the mail, and operates an internet streaming service. Comcast is a mega conglomerate owning multiple businesses.
The 2 are simply not analogous.