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So you’re saying if you haven’t been in this game since the 90’s you can’t win? Netflix has been winning so far no?



Netflix has been “winning” with no competition. Their first major content deal was with STARZ until they took their content away.


> Netflix has been “winning” with no competition.

Netflix has had direct streaming competition for a long time, and has lots of it now; their paid subscriber base in US & Canada is over half the number of households in those countries.




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