Oh I am fully aware of the licensing issues, but we have those licensing issues resolved now for streaming, so all it took was a bit of negotiation work, likely not too dissimilar to what netflix did initially.
I occasionally wondered about the complete opposite, a streaming service that needs no licensing. There are special laws regarding lending physical media. My idea basically a giant Redbox but in a warehouse somewhere. You pay $.50 to rent a blu-ray player in the warehouse, which is legal. You pay $1.50 to rent a blu-ray, also legal. A robot arm places your rented blu-ray in your rented player which you control remotely.
There was a OTA TV company that tried this model called Aereo. Instead of cable retransmission fees or putting up your own antenna, you'd pay a monthly fee to rent an actual antenna and TV tuner in their array of antenna and tuners and stream it to you. They actually built an array of little microantennas so you were renting your own physical antenna and not sharing. It was super smart I thought, but they got sued by the media giants and lost.
Oh I am fully aware of the licensing issues, but we have those licensing issues resolved now for streaming, so all it took was a bit of negotiation work, likely not too dissimilar to what netflix did initially.
I occasionally wondered about the complete opposite, a streaming service that needs no licensing. There are special laws regarding lending physical media. My idea basically a giant Redbox but in a warehouse somewhere. You pay $.50 to rent a blu-ray player in the warehouse, which is legal. You pay $1.50 to rent a blu-ray, also legal. A robot arm places your rented blu-ray in your rented player which you control remotely.
There was a OTA TV company that tried this model called Aereo. Instead of cable retransmission fees or putting up your own antenna, you'd pay a monthly fee to rent an actual antenna and TV tuner in their array of antenna and tuners and stream it to you. They actually built an array of little microantennas so you were renting your own physical antenna and not sharing. It was super smart I thought, but they got sued by the media giants and lost.