Streaming giants have banded together for lobbying power

Oh hey look it’s cable again!

How about the fuckers band their goddamn content and pricing?

This movie and 2,000 garbage titles $10/mo

That movie and 1,500 garbage titles $6/mo

Hot new series everyone's talking about, and oh yeah, garbage $20/mo

That show, addon charge, this sport, addon charge, event, addon.

I wonder if they're being unapologetically transparent by naming so many of the streaming services using a four letter word...

This is the best summary I could come up with:

The new trade group should give companies like Netflix and Disney a solid foundation from which to deal with current and future regulation by the federal government related specifically to streaming.

The SIA formed as regulators look for ways to deal with a changing entertainment landscape that increasingly includes content creators on social platforms, which these companies don’t necessarily want to be lumped in with.

In addition to Netflix and Disney, Axios lists SIA members Paramount Plus, Warner Bros. Discovery’s Max, Peacock, TelevisaUnivision, and some small streamers like For Us By Us Network, Vault, and AfroLandTV.

Netflix joined the MPA in 2019 and left the Internet Association, a broader trade group representing Big Tech companies like Google and Amazon that can’t really help streaming video firms with intellectual property fights (and in some cases, could be at odds with them).

Because streaming video companies exist in such a weird limbo between all of these worlds, they could get caught up in legislation that’s intended to target other facets of the internet.

Laws like the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA), which features overly broad definitions of the platforms it targets and has troubling privacy implications thanks to surveillance requirements, could sweep companies like Netflix or Disney up into its dragnet.

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Working together for the right to not have to work together and share content rights