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by apitman 874 days ago
They had a single provider. They purposefully moved away from that model to make more money, and it's working.
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Maybe, but it's also encouraging people to move back to pirating.

And as I understood it, the streaming wars are more about not wanting one service to dominate the whole industry (or if there is, it's my streaming service) rather than a co-ordinate plan to extract more money from subscribers.