Board Thread:Television/@comment-3048593-20180113175532/@comment-1895174-20190514193159

KalKent wrote: Nurdboy42 wrote: Disney owns two streaming services, yet they're somehow not considered a monopoly... Because it doesn't fit the definition of what a monopoly actually is. "The only supplier of a particular commodity." Courts don't need a literal monopoly to start applying antitrust laws. They just need to be big enough to be exclusionary and anticompetitive. As long as there are other big streaming services out there, other big movie studios out there, other big TV producers out there, they're not a monopoly. Not yet, at least. And unless they buy one of the telcoms, they're not at risk of becoming a vertical monopoly.