Board Thread:Movies/@comment-3048593-20170411234907/@comment-3048593-20171214172057

LoveWaffle wrote: KalKent wrote: Nurdboy42 wrote: Hello monopoly...

If one ignores there are now a total of 5 major movie studios in Hollywood right now, therefore not making Disney a monopoly (a specific person or enterprise who is the only supplier of a particular commodity). And who knows, maybe a new one will rise from Fox's ashes soon enough. But they do now have like a 30% market share, Paramount's shrunk to an almost irrelevant 5%, and Sony is also looking to be bought out. So it's technically more of an oligopoly, but an oligopoly isn't much better than a monopoly. And is also colloquially referred to as a monopoly.

Fair enough. I'm not a US citizen, but I've heard the thing with Time-Warner and Comcast being the only internet providers (I think? I'm not 100% sure what's going on) is sometimes described as a monopoly.