Theater owners should be suing using the Paramount precedent to prevent studios from owning tv channels and movie theaters. Then maybe they’d have content to show that doesn’t leave theaters after five days or less.

Of course with the current court system it would probably just be an ignored precedent.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Paramount_Pictures,_Inc.

[–] TheImpressiveX@piefed.social 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Unfortunately, that law was overturned.

As part of a 2019 review of its ongoing decrees, the Department of Justice issued a two-year sunsetting notice for the Paramount Decree in August 2020, believing the antitrust restriction was no longer necessary as the old model could never be recreated in contemporary settings.

[–] reddig33@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

What a farce.