Earlier this month we noted how Disney and ESPN had sued Sling TV for the cardinal sin of actually trying to innovate. Sling TV’s offense: releasing new, more convenient day, weekend, or week-long shorter term streaming subscriptions that provided an affordable way to watch live television.
These mini-subscriptions, starting at around $5, have already proven to be pretty popular. But, of course, it challenges the traditional cable TV model of getting folks locked into recurring (and expensive) monthly subscriptions. Subscriptions that often mandate that you include sports programming many people simply don’t want to pay for.
So of course Time Warner has now filed a second lawsuit (sealed, 1:25-mc-00381) accusing Dish Network of breach of contract. In the complaint, Warner Bros lawyer David Yohai argues that this kind of convenience simply cannot be allowed.
I live in Denmark, and I can assure you, what we have is still capitalism.
It’s just regulated capitalism, to prevent harm, and ensure fair competition.
In principle it’s the same as USA, but with a political desire to maintain a different balance between capitalists and workers than USA.
But I agree, that among the systems we know of and have tried, the Scandinavian model seems to be among the better systems.
But maybe it all boils down to a stronger democracy, with 12 parties represented in parliament, and the government consisting of 4 cooperating parties.
I think that helps create a better balance, and the American 2 party system, both destroys a good balance, and it also rob voters of the ability to vote for something they actually feel represent their wishes.
On a funny side-note, every research done into the matter that I know of, shows that Scandinavian countries have greater freedom than USA! Especially on the freedom of speech, we have way bigger freedom than Americans.
Capitalism is like alcohol. You don’t take it pure because bad things happen, possibly lethal things. It needs to be a limited amount as part of something bigger.
I agree, that’s what we usually call regulated, only about half of USA think regulation is a poison, all other countries understand regulation much better.