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cyberaxtoday at 9:28 AM1 replyview on HN

I'm not familiar with their originals economics, but the original streaming Netflix was not priced below the cost. As evidenced by them keeping the same subscription cost for years.


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raw_anon_1111today at 10:10 AM

How is that “evidence” of anything? The “evidence” that they were charging less for subscriptions than it cost to run the streaming service is that they were borrowing billions of dollars to both license content and create new content over the course of years.

Netflix borrowed $16 billion over a decades

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/19/business/netflix-earnings...

Because subscriptions didn’t make enough money to fund its business. Were they being “anti competitive”?

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