Amazon acquires MGM for $8.5B
So what we're seeing is a repeat of the film industry from 1930's-1950's. You want to see a Paramount movie, you must go to a Paramount theater. Today you want to watch an Apple show you must go to Apple's VOD.<p>We could really use laws that force, once again, some sort of separation between production and distribution. Better stuff gets made in this kind of ecosystem.