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"Here we go again. It was only a month ago that Karl Bode wrote about Disney’s
absolutely and totally cool process of removing a bunch of content from its
Disney Plus streaming platform not because the content sucks and nobody liked
it, but because it gets to play accounting tricks as to its assets in order to
receive giant tax breaks. To some extent, a big media company prioritizing
quarterly profit reports over providing customers value in its streaming
platform is very much “Dog Bites Man” territory. However, it appears Disney
isn’t particularly shy about taking this practice to absurd levels.
Crater is a Disney film that was released on
Disney Plus in the ancient
times of this past May, nearly two months ago. Despite that short lifespan, and
what are apparently not terrible viewership numbers and reviews, Disney has
already removed the movie from the platform and stuck it in the vaunted Disney
vault."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
