• NateNate60@lemmy.world
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          3 months ago

          I’m a bit confused here; what have they got a monopoly on?

          A monopoly is a business with no viable competitors. But Disney has at least one or two competitors in pretty much everything they do.

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            3 months ago

            So does Google, but it’s still a monopoly due to how they prevent smaller competitors from challenging the status quo.

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              3 months ago

              But every company has a “monopoly on their intellectual property.” That’s just how that works and has nothing to do with being a monopoly.

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                3 months ago

                As I said, technically a monopoly.

                Fox + ABC is pretty big, but I don’t see Disney being the same as a Google or Microsoft monopoly.

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                  3 months ago

                  Please. You are correct but you need to be informed and eloquent about it. Google “enjoys an 89.2% share of the market for general search services, which increases to 94.9% on mobile devices,” according to the most recent judge to rule against them (it was a 270 page ruling so I can’t blame you for not reading it).

                  Intellectual property rights do not a monopoly make. Unfair practices (like requiring webpages to conform to a new standard like google amp or not get boosted in search) make the monopoly.

                  • Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world
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                    3 months ago

                    Intellectual property rights are a government sanctioned monopoly over certain ideas.

                    But I totally agree that IP is not something that the monopolies and mergers commission will investigate.