Board Thread:Television/@comment-3048593-20180113175532/@comment-29908830-20190514194136

LoveWaffle wrote: 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.

Considering that the telcoms bought the media companies in Universal and Warner Bros' cases and not the other way around, they're never going to be even close. Disney has too much pride to sell itself to literally anyone, even though Comcast is now a larger media conglomerate than Disney because of it, and AT&T will probably follow suit. The only industry where Disney comes close to a monopoly is film, and even then they still own less than 40% of the market share at the most.