Redbox: Is the movie biz doomed to relive the Napster nightmare? | The Big Picture | Lo... - 0 views
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Warners has even gone further, saying it would impose the same restrictions on Netflix and other DVD by-mail subscription providers unless they agreed to a "day-and-date revenue sharing option."
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here's no way of getting around the fact that the studios who are trying to put the muscle on Redbox are making the same mistakes the music business made nearly a decade ago when it attempted -- and failed, quite spectacularly -- to squash unauthorized downloading of music by destroying the dreaded Napster Web file-sharing service.
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At some point we'll have a longer, perhaps more intriguing discussion about why so many people have gone from buyers to renters.