doctorbadwolf
Heretic of The Seventh Circle
Disney isn’t under threat from anyone. At all. Youre being completely ridiculous to even suggest that.Look, if there are three "major offenders" then there are zero monopolies. That's what's called a normal industry. You grew up with NBC, CBS, and ABC as the big three. Even when UPN and Fox came around, they were miniscule. A big three for an industry is a perfectly normal industry. In the industry my company is in, there is a big two.
Your personal standard for what is acceptable is not a substitute for the actual legal requirements of a monopoly. Disney isn't a monopoly, they're not even close, and they are not even the top of their own industry and are under constant threat from not just the top of that industry but from new players in that industry like Google.
And the fact that you’re acclimated to the corrupt status quo doesn’t make it any less corrupt.
Now, if you bothered reading what you’re replying to, you’d already know that I didn’t call Disney a monopoly, I stated correctly that they violate antitrust laws, which includes and is closely related to monopoly regulation.
Even where your arguments aren’t absurd, they’re the same as arguing that Disney isn’t manipulating IP law, when they have successfully pushed Congress to extend the copyright period multiple times.
“The status quo is bad.”
“No it’s not because it’s technically legal!”
Like you gotta see the absurdity.