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		vertex-four on July 25, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Verizon Throttles Netflix Subscribers in Test It D... This isn't a thing that's unique to digital content - it's a common business arrangement for some company to be allowed to be a sole distributor for a product in a market. It reduces risk for the distributor, meaning that they're able to give the product manufacturer a bigger cut.

shmerl on July 25, 2017 [–]

In the global Internet economy, this should really become irrelevant for digital goods. But of course some try to prevent that from happening.

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