I think one of the biggest advantages of streaming, for customers, is that it's created competition in the TV business, which used to be controlled by
a few big distributors and that's really changed.
Not exact matches
New Company Breaks Barriers to Distribution for Small Producers Consolidation continues to make
distributors bigger and
fewer while the number of producers grow with new small producers enter the market.
Maria Lynn has been to dozens of film festivals in her 10 years as a film
distributor but remembers
few events as moving as the San Francisco International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival premiere of «
Big Eden.»
No longer is Diamond Comics (the
biggest and most influential
distributor of printed comics to stores carrying comics) or a
few indy - friendly comic shops the ones who decide the fate of your work.
Hibbs points out the irony of the
biggest comics
distributor having
fewer books in stock than a generalist mega-
distributor.
So, it makes sense that the rate at which Federal Way, Wash. - based Animal Supply Co. and Easton, Pa. - based Phillips Pet Food and Supplies have been acquiring competing
distributors over the past
few years has been a
big source of anxiety for pet store owners and operators.
These lawsuits by
big TV incumbents seem to have a
few goals: to expand the scope of secondary copyright infringement yet again, to force major Kodi add - on
distributors off of the Internet, and to smear and discourage open source, freely configurable media players by focusing on the
few bad actors in that ecosystem.