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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward
Why? Stop for a second and ask, why does a producer have to go through a huge number of middlemen to reach the customer nowadays?
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Because every content producer doesn't want to have to provide a server farm, account management and billing facilities, etc, to stream content. It's not "a huge number of middlemen"; it's one middle-man - the streaming company.
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If you aren't going through a large number of middlemen, explain to me why producer X has to charge lots more money to deliver a product - streaming - to anywhere in the world? (Where's the extra cost?)
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The price that the streaming company will pay to buy the right to stream content from a producer depends on the size of the region they're paying for the right to stream to. A larger region = higher cost.