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In my opinion, we need more streaming apps, not fewer. However, for that to actually work, we new legislation that the producer of content cannot be the distributor, and that the producer must license it out equally to any distributor.

The problem we are in right now, is every producer is also the distributor and is siloing their content.

I want to be able to select my preferred content platform, but should be able to access _all_ content on that platform.

Then distributors (apps) compete in different ways and at different price points. Some examples:

- 4k vs HD streaming

- Offline downloads

- Pay per hour vs unlimited

- Extra enhancements like Amazon's X-Ray

- Better curation

- Different recommendation algorithms

- live vs on-demand

Then _I_ have a choice in how I experience content. We got lucky and have this with the music industry. Very little content is siloed, so I still have a choice on Spotify, Apple Music, Pandora, Tidal, Bandcamp, or just à la carte purchases and curating my own collection.




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