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		qop on May 31, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Microsoft is now worth more than Alphabet It costs like ten dollars sometimes to rent a movie that probably costs them $0.30 to stream to me, they gotta be making some money

zrobotics on May 31, 2018 [–]

And how much does the studio charge to luscence the movie? Surely you didn't expect that was free?

qop on May 31, 2018 | [–]

Well surely it's not 9.70/user either

Also, it's on the same infrastructure as apps so they already have a good backbone for delivering it

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