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Not really sure what you mean here.
Current news. antitrust review and all that.
Not really sure what you mean here.
Current news. antitrust review and all that.
That is just the process. I am again surprised you are more worried about this deal when the real threats are from the net neutrality ruling and mergers such as Comcast+Universal and AT&T+Time Warner. But continue with your baseless factless points![]()
Surprise, surprise. I respond to why this is a bad idea, give several good explanations and suddenly the goal posts are moved to "Well Fox was looking to sell anyways" as if that justifies a bad consolidation of the media. It doesn't matter that Fox was looking to sell, it matters who they were selling it to. Once again you ignore this because you can't accept it is a bad idea.
The only strawman here is the one being built by you for insisting this is a good idea then ignoring the answers you don't like to try and make it look like the original point: this is a bad move, was not even the question in the first place.
Clearly though no amount of explaining why will make a difference. You will just keep finding new ways to evade that answer and go on cheering the Disney Death Star as it decimates and absorbs the competition until there is only a token amount of resistant companies left to pretend they don't control a vast quantity of pop culture.
Cheer it on, be happy right up until it all blows up in your face.
You're forgetting that you're talking to a bunch of people who don't care about ANYTHING as long as stuff is in the "MCU."
It's sad, but it is what it is.
People used to enjoy artists' works: screenwriters, filmmakers. Now people are sucking up to the Mouse because all you need is fanservice and pandering to make them wet their pants.
One of the many reasons I haven't posted in a while and won't anytime soon...
Let them enjoy what they're being fed. No need to argue, you wouldn't be able get a mature conversation out of this anyway.
lol those are now worse
all the same to me, but of course those get enough play as is so I'll be here
You're forgetting that you're talking to a bunch of people who don't care about ANYTHING as long as stuff is in the "MCU."
It's sad, but it is what it is.
People used to enjoy artists' works: screenwriters, filmmakers. Now people are sucking up to the Mouse because all you need is fanservice and pandering to make them wet their pants.
One of the many reasons I haven't posted in a while and won't anytime soon...
Let them enjoy what they're being fed. No need to argue, you wouldn't be able get a mature conversation out of this anyway.
I am actually surprised 3 or 4 of these keyboard warriors are so busy predicting the doom and gloom due to Disney taking over Fox but I wonder why nothing has been brought up regarding the recent ruling on net neutrality and how it puts conglomerates that handle both content creation + distribution channels in an amazingly viable vantage point. Comcast + Universal and AT&T + Time Warner are the real monopoly threats here and yet people find the time to whinge about this deal just coz it's "Disney". Its so laughably absurd.![]()
What you have said is true: The massive US ISPs are the real threat because they now have the power to limit our access to their competitors' content, steer us towards their own and even to prevent us from accessing websites or streaming content altogether whenever they choose to do so. That is true monopolistic power, which should frighten everyone, rather than some fantasy of a Disney monopoly that doesn't exist.
Comcast/Universal could decide tomorrow that it would prefer to make it harder for its customers to watch Netflix and Hulu during the Olympics. It can now throttle download speeds to the extent that streaming video is as frustrating or impossible as it was back in the dial-up era. Or it can decide to put data usage caps in place, but only for streaming video from its rivals. If Comcast feels that sports sites like ESPN are "spoiling" events by giving the results as they happen instead of waiting until its NBC network airs them hours later, it can now cut off access to the Disney-owned rival and others as it sees fit. And that's just a few of the possible outcomes of the FCC's pernicious anti-net neutrality ruling. Yet there are people here moaning about Disney when the real monopolistic entities have already bought themselves near-total control of our entertainment choices.
Anyone worried about mega-conglomerates "...controlling our imaginations" need look no further than the repeal of net neutrality to see which corporations are really in control.
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/11/06/21s...o-sell-most-of-company-to-disney-sources.html
May not come to fruition but this says they were definitely considering it.
Disney would be fools to let it go. They know what a goldmine they have. And they have the money.
Disney may not have a choice. Comcast is bigger than Disney. They have $180+ billion in assets. Disney has $95 billion in assets. Comcast revenue is $84 billion. Disney's is $55 billion. If Comcast really wants Fox they have the ability to outbid Disney.
Well it will be a real bummer if the FF and X-Men film rights can't go back to Marvel but there is always the whole "Marvel-Sony" deal that it's in place for Spider-Man. Who knows, Comcast may want to play ball in a similar fashion. I'd still rather have Disney get Fox.
Comcast outbids disney with a $65 billion offer for Fox.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...65-billion-for-fox-in-bidding-war-with-disney
Just imagine the reaction if Comcast manages to buy Fox. Marvel fans are already counting their chickens and thinking the F4 and Xmen are joining the MCU. It's closer to being a reality than it's ever been. It's sooo close. To have Comcast snatch that away...the tantrum would be hilarious.
Disney may not have a choice. Comcast is bigger than Disney. Comcast has $180+ billion in assets. Disney has $95 billion in assets. Comcast revenue is $84 billion. Disney's is $55 billion. If Comcast really wants Fox they have the ability to outbid Disney.
Disney would be fools to let it go. They know what a goldmine they have. And they have the money.