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Netflix, Disney, Max and More Team to Form Streaming Innovation Alliance Lobbying Group

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A new trade group the Streaming Innovation Alliance brings together Netflix, Disney, Warner Bros. Discovery, Paramount and other players to promote their interests to politicians and government entities. It marks the first time competing streaming-video providers have banded together in a unified lobbying front.

The launch members of the Streaming Innovation Alliance (website at this link) are: AfroLandTV, America Nu Network, BET+, Discovery+, For Us By Us Network, Max, the Motion Picture Association, MotorTrend+, Netflix, Paramount+, Peacock, PlutoTV, Telemundo, TelevisaUnivision and Vix, Vault and the Walt Disney Co. The SIA will advocate for federal and state policies that build on the strong, competitive, and pro-consumer market for streaming video, according to the group.

Companies notably absent from the Streaming Innovation Alliances initial roster include Apple, Amazon, Google/YouTube and Roku.

The Streaming Innovation Alliance has tapped two well-known DC leaders as senior advisers: Fred Upton, a Republican who is a 36-year veteran of the U.S. House of Representatives, and Mignon Clyburn, a Democrat who served as acting chair of the Federal Communications Commission.

The group said, Charles Rivkin, chairman and CEO of the Motion Picture Association, played a leading role in organizing the SIA. Streaming provides great value, vast programming choices, and unprecedented options for consumers, Rivkin said in a statement. The MPA looks forward to working with the SIA and its members to ensure federal and state policy propels this incredible innovation forward and doesnt undermine the value and diversity consumers are enjoying today.

Clyburn commented, Streaming services have opened up a new era of progress for program diversity that is bringing relevant stories and options to historically underserved communities at a record pace while opening doors for production jobs to people of color that have been shut for decades. Any policy that drags down streaming would turn back the clock on this vital progress as well.

Upton added, The rise of innovative, new video streaming services is an American success story we should celebrate and encourage, not smother with obsolete and ill-fitting rules and regulations designed for completely different technology, products and business models.

As part of the launch, the SIA released the results of a recent poll finding that 70% of registered voters view streaming services favorably or very favorably, with approval even higher among younger voters and in communities of color. In addition, by at least a 2-to-1 margin, voters worry new regulations could require streaming services to collect more data or deter them from offering sensitive programming, while two-thirds of those surveyed fear new rules will threaten diverse and independent services the most, according to the SIA.

https://variety.com/2023/biz/news/streaming-innovation-alliance-netflix-disney-max-1235735932/

Oh look, they're fighting to make AI use legal.

This seems like nothing good will come of it. Like I feel like its all the big wigs coming together to plan for the next strike before it even happens.

I don't know their endgame, but anytime giants like that agree to lobby for something and get the government involved, all I know is they're up to some no good anti consumer bullshit.

It's like in a video game where a bunch of smaller slime monsters form together into one giant slime monster

Risitas laughing from the grave

A couple of streamers that were up to no good started making trouble in the neighborhood

yikes, this can't be good

Regulatory Capture in 3...2...

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"We want the government on board so once we decide to fuck people over even harder, hopefully we can get away with it."

pegusus123456 posted...

It's like in a video game where a bunch of smaller slime monsters form together into one giant slime monster

Great post

Oh goodie, maybe now they'll charge even more
>__>

Shouldve saw this coming with how much theyre following each other. When Max (Zaslav) removed a bunch of original content, the others soon followed. Password sharing crackdown too.

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these gigantic corporations know they wield maximum power when they band together. this is exactly why they don't want workers doing the same thing (unionizing).

Well, thing isNetflix only just started to make profit. No one else does. Streaming is a money sink. Theyre trying to figure out how to actually make profit in this new market.

Disney trading out the Hulkbuster armor for Union buster suits.

This looks more like industry collusion than anything.

Torgo posted...

This looks more like industry collusion than anything.

"It's free speech." - Chief Justice Roberts

The swamp is filling up again.

VRX3000 posted...

Well, thing isNetflix only just started to make profit. No one else does.

I'm reasonably certain Netflix was profitable back when it was DVD-by-mail and b-movie streaming, for $8 a month.

It's the balkanization, and the need to blow billions on "originals" and The Office exclusivity, that's killing streaming. Pluto, Tubi, Freevee, and Crackle seem to be doing well just giving it away, and I'm pretty sure Rockford Files and Thunderbirds are on all them at once.