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Old 03-07-2012, 08:26 AM   #80
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Originally Posted by azazel1024 View Post
Within reason, if you are targeting a large enough portion of the public, you don't have a right to not sell your product to catagory of someone.
You can't discriminate based on race, religion or gender. That doesn't mean you are required to sell content to everyone. (E.g. a retailer is not required to sell sexually explicit materials to minors.)


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A great example is Netflix, Redbox, et al.... 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.
Netflix cannot pick up a copy of the DVD, rip it, and stream it to customers; they can only stream the content when it's been granted a license. There are no problems with licensing content to Hulu but not Netflix, HBO but not Showtime, ABC but not CBS.

Different media = different means of distribution.
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