Streaming corporation strategy: purging shows
Movie and TV streaming is fundamentally unjust because of DRM, requirement to identify oneself, and the antisocial contracts where users commit not to
share copies with other people. For these reason, I have never used those
streaming dis-services.
Now Disney is trying a secondary injustice — what looks like a kind
of tax fraud. It is
deleting many old programs,
supposedly because they no longer bring in revenue, and claiming a tax
writeoff of $1.5 billion for them.
Those two claims contradict each other, so it looks like we need the IRS
to cut down Disney's tax writeoff.
Republicans, the party of the plutocrats, are trying to cut the IRS
funding so it can't do this job.
It doesn't make economic sense for a company to renounce the profits
from selling something that basically costs nothing to sell in order
to avoid paying a share of those profits to someone else. The idea
that this really a way to punish actors on strike has the virtue
of being a rational (though vicious) motive.