Comment by ryandrake
4 hours ago
Yea, what I mean by "people who make decisions" is everybody involved: studios, distributors, rights holders, and the maze of middlemen who have inserted themselves into the business: If all of them decided that more money could be made, if not for those pesky licenses, the "licensing problems" would immediately disappear.
And if any of them decide they are better served by the current arrangement, the licensing problems remain.
You seem to be making incredibly banal observations.
That's what governance is for, though. These laws can be changed to require collaboration or remove the artificial monopolies.
They haven't been because the people being hurt by it are way less organized than the people benefitting, not because things couldn't ever change.