The Writers Guild of America issued a report on Thursday calling Netflix, Amazon and Disney the “new gatekeepers” of the media business, and calling for antitrust regulators to prevent …
that blasted five media mergers — including AT&T-Time Warner, Comcast-NBCUniversal, and Disney-Fox — as examples of failed antitrust enforcement.
The latest report more focuses more on Netflix and Amazon than the previous versions have. The report argues that Netflix used to be an innovative competitor, but has since become “a powerful incumbent focused on raising prices, vertically integrating, and exerting its dominance over workers.” The WGA also argues that Amazon has engaged in predatory pricing and other anti-competitive practices to establish a platform monopoly, and that its acquisition of MGM indicates it plans to “bring its platform monopoly playbook to dominate media.”
The report also faults Disney for raising prices and reducing its feature film output, as well as engaging in aggressive vertical integration. “Each is now taking anti-competitive vertical integration to an extreme, turning its streaming service into a walled garden for self-produced content — a model built for and dependent on restricting the availability of independent content from competing producers, underpaying creators, and, above all, making future consolidation the name of the industry game.”
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