They were lazy. <div><br></div><div>The same can be asked with the taxi & private car industry, uber came along and filled the gap. <span></span><br><br>On Sunday, January 4, 2015, Alan Maher <<a href="mailto:alanmaher@gmail.com">alanmaher@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">With all due respect to Netflix, you have to wonder why the Movie Studios don't<br>
stream the stuff themselves.<br>
They already control the direct supply chain to the theatres, and taking it further to<br>
control the internet supply chain would have struck me as logical.<br>
But, I know that logic has little do with some of this stuff.<br>
*Just thinking out loud*<br>
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On 4/01/2015 3:40 p.m., James Andrewartha wrote:<br>
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On Sun, 4 Jan 2015, Skeeve Stevens wrote:<br>
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Whatever happens, Netflix are going to have to be 'seen' to be trying to do something, otherwise they may start to lose content<br>
deals... They aren't so big that losing Sony or others wouldn't hurt them.<br>
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Sony isn't so big that losing Netflix won't hurt them, they expected to<br>
make $US41 million in FY2014 from Netflix licensing. I dunno about you,<br>
but I wouldn't be so quick to give up that sort of revenue.<br>
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<a href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/12/sony-pictures-mad-at-netflixs-failure-to-block-overseas-vpn-users/" target="_blank">http://arstechnica.com/tech-<u></u>policy/2014/12/sony-pictures-<u></u>mad-at-netflixs-failure-to-<u></u>block-overseas-vpn-users/</a><br>
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