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NonprayingMantis

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#1284791 15-Apr-2015 15:08

shk292:
SparkNZ:

The salient point there is that this has only ever been about clarifying the rules of the game in NZ, the ability for other NZ companies to promote a particular service, and therefore the value of the rights that Sky, TVNZ, Mediaworks and Lightbox have all paid for. It's not about overseas companies or protecting old business models (there's nothing old about SVOD), and its certainly not about what people do with their internet connections.
Sam

Sorry, but I don't buy that. You're trying to say that you're just trying to clarify the rules, and you'll be quite happy if, after a 5-6 figure legal bill, the rules are clarified to show that NZ consumers are free to use the best value service available and the business model for Lightbox has disappeared? /Tui-ad

i guess they might think that if global mode is legitimised, then they can go back to the studios and re-negotiate their content bill. Exclusive rights are a lot more expensive than nonexclusive.

Not sure whether the studios will agree with that though.

MikeB4

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#1284793 15-Apr-2015 15:09

shk292:
SparkNZ:

The salient point there is that this has only ever been about clarifying the rules of the game in NZ, the ability for other NZ companies to promote a particular service, and therefore the value of the rights that Sky, TVNZ, Mediaworks and Lightbox have all paid for. It's not about overseas companies or protecting old business models (there's nothing old about SVOD), and its certainly not about what people do with their internet connections.
Sam

Sorry, but I don't buy that. You're trying to say that you're just trying to clarify the rules, and you'll be quite happy if, after a 5-6 figure legal bill, the rules are clarified to show that NZ consumers are free to use the best value service available and the business model for Lightbox has disappeared? /Tui-ad

Testing this in Court is a good thing and needed

shk292

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#1284812 15-Apr-2015 15:13

NonprayingMantis:

i guess they might think that if global mode is legitimised, then they can go back to the studios and re-negotiate their content bill. Exclusive rights are a lot more expensive than nonexclusive.

Not sure whether the studios will agree with that though.

Maybe that would be a good outcome, a test case could show that geo-blocking is not enforceable and exclusive rights are a nonsense. If VF/Sky/Telecom hadn't negotiated their rights packages on the misguided anachronistic assumption that they were inviolably exclusive, they wouldn't be in the position they're in now

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