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		toast0 7 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why is Warner Bros. Discovery putting old movies o... > however, why is DRM so important and require so much focus? Because the content owners demand it. No content = no customers. You could probably build out a public domain streaming service, if you really wanted to build out a non-DRM streaming platform, but it's going to be hard to find customers for that too, I'd imagine.

Epa095 7 months ago [–]

This exactly.

I guess Netflix owns some of its concent, and could do as they pleases(?). But they still need a uber fast pipeline for the other stuff.

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