And at least five of them are alt-history about the Civil War.

This is for parents desperate for a way to shut their kids up. I don't think the AV Club is the target market.

Password sharing is not really regarded by smart streaming services as stealing. It's stealth marketing - people training friends and family to value this or that service - and easily managed by the services just by limiting the number of simultaneous streams, charging more for multiple streams, etc.

It won't last. We can already see the distribution in how people subscribe to streaming services: 80% have 1 or 2, the rest mostly have 3, very few have more than 4.

Like all these streaming services, it will be an international thing when & if it works out domestically. Everybody is jealous of Netflix, everybody wants to do what they are doing, and being global is a crucial part of it, because if you don't have a direct way to sell to a huge global market, content costs will eat…

This business won't have advertising dollars. Netflix/Amazon/HBO will be subscription, ad-free. The short term successor will be a meta subscription service that offers an easy way to match up a worthwhile price with the content we want (why can't I just pay $10/month for X amount of content/delivered at Y rate, or…

You don't have to have all of those at once, do you? Subscribe sequentially. Eventually Amazon or Apple will launch a service that automates that practice, so might as well just start now and give them encouragement.

And Netflix/Amazon. Confused consumers opt for market leaders.

Restore the "Topsy" scene to Fantasia and you got a customer Disney!

$80 is way too much. Here's the solution: everybody and their monkey continues to create streaming services in the vain hopes of becoming Netflix. Some powerful, well-connected company that doesn't yet have a good place in the streaming ecosystem (Apple or Google) creates a meta-service that serves as a front-end to…

People who want to pirate will pirate. What the proliferation of streaming services will do is to confuse the paying customers - who want content and ease of use, and don't want to bother with piracy - and confused customers opt for the market leaders with the biggest libraries. So this will end up benefitting Netflix…

I don't think Disney can pull DVDs. Legally, Netflix can buy the DVDs off Amazon (oh the irony) and then rent them out. If Disney made a huge fuss, Netflix might comply in order to persevere their relationship (still have Marvel and Star Wars to worry about) but nobody's going to make a fuss over DVDs, widely regarded…

Nobody's gonna unsubscribe from HBO to go chase around and find some crappy version of the show to save a few bucks. HBO doesn't cater to the audience that needs to save a few bucks anyway.

GoT ratings are at an all time high. Nobody cares about this stupid shit. If you subscribe to HBO, you are not going to unsubscribe just to chase after some pirated versions that are inferior and less convenient than what you can see with great ease on your TV each week. HBO caters to the higher-income households that…

No. A series of dollar signs leading to their bank accounts.

But for them, it's "LA cocksucker."

I have a pretty good idea of how they communicate, and after a couple emails it would get stunningly boring. I'd like to see all the panicked emails after the Confederate fiasco, just for the amusement factor but I could probably write the damn things myself.

Throw in some sexy teenage vampires who mope a lot and we got a deal.

Who cares about GoT marketing plans. The stuff they got sounds way too much like work to be any fun. Oh look at this sexy budget spreadsheet! Blergh.

That'a not Netflix's strategy. That's Netflix failing to negotiate successfully for the rights to season 5. And as more show producers like FX become wannabe competitors, those negotiations will be tougher…or nonexistent.