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by pchristensen 5525 days ago
Ooh, ooh, ooh! I love "Amazon should buy Netflix" articles. It's the HN equivalent of "first!" to say that Amazon won't buy Netflix because it would give them a business nexus in a lot of states and require them to collect sales tax there. Ergo, never gonna happen, at least not without some financial sleight of hand like the $175 million "investment" in LivingSocial.
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TomOfTTB 5525 days ago
Well...I hate to be this blunt about it...but if Amazon were to buy Netflix it would be to get their subscribers and to get their content licenses. Since any merger would take time and netflix has already said it plans to do everything in its power to move away from shipping DVDs.

So since Netflix is already running on AWS and Amazon is already maintaining their infrastructure there wouldn't be much need for Amazon to take on Netflix's employees or physical assets.

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seb 5525 days ago
They would probably loose the content licenses. The contracts between the content holders and Netflix says probably something about a right to cancel the contract in case Netflix is bought.
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