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That was the original idea for Netflix, but the problem is that all the copyright holders decided that they wanted the profits that Netflix was pulling in and created their own streaming services.

Pretty soon some ISP is going to sell a bulk subscription to these streaming services alongside their internet package and we'll have truly come full circle.

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Yep, all of the property owners want their rent seeking platforms.

The fun thing about this service is that the copyright holders don't get a choice. Their content will be on the platform regardless of what they want so they have an incentive to join the profit sharing in order to better control their metadata on the service and provide better support for their users. Or they can sit and complain and lose out on any of the profits.

Sounds kinda like the idea behind the Brave browser.

It already exists. In Sri Lanka, the biggest ISP (Dialog) has a subscription that pays for Netflix, and provides some extra bandwidth to use it: https://www.dialog.lk/netflix

> Pretty soon some ISP is going to sell a bulk subscription to these streaming services alongside their internet package and we'll have truly come full circle.

The real question is why there isn't a Aereo-like service where users time-share a pool of streaming subscriptions on different streaming services.

some isps are even running their own streaming services!

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