streaming is driving an economic restructuring of the entertainment business. While that’s disruptive enough to question whether some companies can survive this transition, it has opened new opportunities for others.Streaming has begun to attract new sources of capital and new financial players with very different views of how value can be derived from music, movies and TV programs.
Rather than sales of CDs, DVDs and movie tickets producing most of the revenue and profits as in days past, the bulk of the monies today flow from the licensing of rights for use of that programming in streaming and other types of third-party services.
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