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Originally Posted by azazel1024
A great example is Netflix, Redbox, et al. Warner Brothers and others have come out with 30 day and starting soon in some cases 60 day blackouts in when Netflix, Redbox and others can rent new releases. However, that only applies to movies sold to those companies through wholesale rental copy deals with them. The companies can go out and buy the movies at retail price and rent them to their hearts content day 1 without the movie publishers being able to say a thing.
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They cannot just buy movies at retail price and then show them to their subscribers. And they pay a whole lot more than retail for their copies.
I can see both sides of the dispute. A fair solution would take into account the average times a pbook could be checked out before it had to be retired (due to damage). A surcharge is reasonable, the question is how much. You can't just expect publishers to make forced donations. Perhaps giving them tax credits instead as they get for real donations?