Episode 11: Trapped Inside the Walled Garden

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HBS: With Subscription Fatigue Setting In, Companies Need to Think Hard About Fees by Jay Fitzgerald - https://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/with-subscription-fatigue-setting-in-companies-need-to-think-hard-about-fees

Forbes: Why The Future Of Media Is Subscription-Based by Falon Fatemi - https://www.forbes.com/sites/falonfatemi/2023/12/13/why-the-future-of-media-is-subscription-based/

Pluralistic: Tiktok's enshittification (21 Jan 2023) by Cory Doctorow -
https://craphound.com/news/2023/02/20/tiktoks-enshittification/

Mother Jones: Why Reddit Is Destined to Turn to Crap by Ali Breland -
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/06/reddit-blackout/

Quartz: Hulu and Disney+ are losing subscribers as the streaming industry struggles to turn a profit by Bruce Gil -
https://qz.com/streaming-services-antenna-state-subscriptions-report-1851291285

Motley Fool: State of Streaming 2024: Streaming Services and Consumer Sentiment by Jack Coporal -
https://www.fool.com/research/state-of-streaming/

Fresh Air: How streaming, mergers and other major changes are upending Hollywood - Interview by Tonya Mosley:
https://www.npr.org/2024/04/25/1246886718/how-streaming-mergers-and-other-major-changes-are-upending-hollywood

The Wrap: Your Unfair Cable Bill: Most Expensive Channels Aren’t the Most Watched by LA Ross and Tony Maglio -
https://www.thewrap.com/cable-network-carriage-fees/

The Current: What the Tech are Walled Gardens? by Chris Brooklier - https://www.thecurrent.com/what-the-tech-walled-gardens

Wake Forest Law Review: Will the DOJ Lower the Walls of Apple’s Walled Garden? by Maeve Hickey -
https://www.wakeforestlawreview.com/2024/04/will-the-doj-lower-the-walls-of-apples-walled-garden/

The Atlantic: Streaming has Reached its Sad, Predictable Fate by By Charlie Warzel -
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/09/streaming-services-netflix-max-cost/675264/

Gizmodo: Redbox is finally Deadbox by Oscar Gonzalez -
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/redbox-is-finally-deadbox/ar-BB1pdHSY?ocid=BingNewsSerp

The Hollywood Reporter: Streaming Services Beware: A Crackdown Is Coming on “Cancellation Trickery” by Ashley Cullins -
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/streaming-services-how-to-cancel-1235535649/

MIT Technology Review: Make no mistake—AI is owned by Big Tech by Amba Kak, Sarah Myers West, Meredith Whittaker -
https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/12/05/1084393/make-no-mistake-ai-is-owned-by-big-tech/#:~:text=All%20rely%20on%20the%20computing%20infrastructure%20of%20Microsoft%2C,by%20these%20tech%20giants%20or%20their%20partner%20startups