Amazon Buys James Bond (MGM STUDIOS and Everything Else…)

The saga of unlimited (read: unrestricted) acquisitions by multinationals continues. Many now consider the acquisition of MGM STUDIOS by Amazon a sure thing. Essentially, we’re talking about a film studio that has elements like:

• 007

• Rocky

• Terminator

• Epix

• 5,200 films

• 17,000 hours of TV shows

Need a few more numbers? Amazon Prime (which also provides video streaming) has 200 million subscribers worldwide. It’s clear that with these figures there’s very little that can be done. From our perspective, this cluster of completely different companies makes no sense, except to squeeze users and taxes to the bone. We would like to see a policy capable of setting some limits…