So you want to pass a law that no one can produce content and put it on their own website?

magicalhippo 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

Here in Norway we have a law for mobile carriers which is intended to prevent moats. It states that carriers must provide access for a "reasonable price" to other phone companies. It seems to have worked fairly well.

One could imagine something similar, that sure you can put your own movie or TV show on your own website, but you must also sell it to companies who asks on reasonable terms. So Netflix can make a movie but couldn't say no to say Plex if they wanted to buy the rights to show it on Plex.tv.

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raw_anon_1111 2 days ago | parent [-]

This is completely different. Cell phone infrastructure in particular is by nature a natural monopoly. Two carriers can’t operate over the same frequency and only certain frequencies are conducive for cell phones.

Content has no such restriction. Are you really saying every piece of content anyone produces must be licensed? Who decides what is “reasonable”?

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Larrikin a day ago | parent [-]

The law would decide what is reasonable

	▲	raw_anon_1111 a day ago \| parent [-]
		Would you want the “law” deciding that you had to license software code to anyone and have the law set the price? How does the law decide how much Disney should license the Avengers for compared to my cat videos I’m going to put on my website? Should we expand the law so if I post open source code under AGPL, I must license it to at a certain price?

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Larrikin a day ago | parent | prev [-]

No, just media production companies on their own streaming service. There is no reason to pretend that billion dollar, publicly traded companies are poor college kids just trying to get noticed on the Internet for their quirky videos.

	▲	raw_anon_1111 a day ago \| parent [-]
		Okay, and if they move ownership and production outside of the country and stream it from their website ate yoi going to block them from streaming to the US? How is that law going to apply to Sony who is Japanese owned and CrunchyRoll? Do we force PluralSight and Udacity to share their content? YouTube creators?