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Nice try (commercial experience meets PopcornTime), but BitTorrent Live didn't go anywhere and Netflix is nowhere near comprehensive because licensing deals are
by cat-dev-null 11y ago
Nice try (commercial experience meets PopcornTime), but BitTorrent Live didn't go anywhere and Netflix is nowhere near comprehensive because licensing deals are few and far between. Doubtful this will go anywhere because it's too expensive, competing with nearly free (ease of theft and cheaper-but-fragmented services) and Netflix has far deeper pockets and still has a minuscule catalog. Perhaps some Sean Parker Jedi w00w00 mindtricks can tease out deals where others have failed. Double-ended marketplace and kind of late# a highly-competitive/incumbent-monopolized market... (sincerely) good luck with that.
It's probably a good idea because it seems like a terrible idea, especially if it offers multiple defensible, durable advantages.
# There's both 'last-mover' and 'first-mover' advantage(s) in most categories.