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Message: <blockquote data-quote="nevin" data-source="post: 9055346" data-attributes="member: 7024481">No that's not true.  All the old agreements are still in force with relation to each seperate movie or tv series per season.  this is why so much content is going away from streaming services.   Some shows have to pay fees to a large number of people every viewing.   IT get's more common and higher amounts with shows that had a popular run.   Disney has  less than 30 percent of the vault in thier streaming service.  Both Netflix and Amazon have started playing Hijinx's with thier search engines trying to push people to more profitable (for them) views.   Each and every movie and annual tv series has it own contract with it's own stipulations for what happens when it's viewed.  The entire writer's strike issue boils down to streaming services have been arguing those agreements didn't negotiate streaming views so they don't count.  This is why the strike is such a big deal to both sides.  The writers should win and if they do expect even more streaming content to go away.  Amazon Streaming, Netflix, disney, and Hulu have been running themselves like Silicon Valley Startups and thier top shows often have nothing to do with eyeballs viewing the content and more about getting the right buzz so people invest.  That's all Drying up and now they have to start making money  to keep their investor's happy.    The last time Hollywood jacked with thier viewer model they helped run Blockbuster out of business to make the  point they were the big dog.  Then to their horror Target, Amazon, and  Walmart started selling DVD's of new release movies as loss leaders to get people into the store and drove the  price of new release DVD's down.    they are already starting to moan and whine about how good Cable TV was and how they wish they'd never invested in Streaming because the profit margins are razor thin.     I suspect the HBO MAX and DISNEY, HULU, ESPN mergers are just the beginning.   We'll end up with two or three streaming services that may eventually end up simply being streaming version's of lower profit Cable companies.</blockquote>

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