These streaming services should build hooks into the popular home-streaming apps (plex, etc), as well as provide their whole catalogs to all their competitors. You should be able to stream Disney from Netflix.
Your Disney movie can have a microtransaction upcharge of $2.50 or whatever, and Netflix can pay a minor royalty like they would for anything in their catalog already.
No platform should be completely exclusive. It's in their interests not to try to claim zero-sum game. Problem is, at this point the whales are used to paying for all services. Maybe it'll change. I know folks why just cycle services.
@igmp_join for sure, synergy is where it's at. There are both sides; they want to make the content and warehouse it. But the production and warehousing both benefit most if you can warehouse and sell to everyone instead of your walled garden.
@33MHz but is the profit from the distribution less than the cost of not distributing it to every service? and most of those platform places only want exclusive rights, not partial.
@igmp_join unless you never misstep AND you're Facebook. (you notice they now have Threads on fediverse stuffs; after a while even being the biggest walled garden will have to pivot or die)
This is already almost defacto; you can "rent" many movies on Amazon Video or Netflix or etc etc, seasonally; some movies, old movies, will rotate around B-tier services and secondary sources. But it's not good enough.
@ryb like Fb, Disney will eventually want to prevent an upstart from eating their lunches, and pay a small premium to prevent any users from leaving their service. If they really believe their content can save them.