How Consumers and Creators Soured on Streaming

Scott Myers
Go Into The Story
Published in
4 min readJun 18, 2023

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(Image by Jiaqi Wang / For The L.A. Times)

Consider this history lesson from the Los Angeles Times.

When “House of Cards” premiered on Netflix 10 years ago, it was treated as a very expensive lab experiment: Would original programming get more people to sign up for Netflix, then primarily known as the company that destroyed Blockbuster?

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