↪ Netflix Agrees to Buy Warner Bros., Including HBO, for $83 Billion

John Gruber, no Daring Fireball, comentando sobre a compra da Warner Bros. pelo Netflix:

The LA Times article goes on to cite concerns from the movie theater industry, based on Netflix’s historic antipathy toward theatrical releases for its films. Netflix is promising to keep Warner Bros.’s film studio a separate operation, maintaining the studio’s current support for theatrical releases. I hope they do. I grew up loving going to the movies. I still enjoy it, but the truth is I go far less often as the years go on. Movie theaters shouldn’t be a protected class of business just because there’s so much affection and nostalgia for them. If they continue sliding into irrelevance, so be it. That’s how disruption, progress, and competition work.

Eu acho tristíssima essa observação, porque ignora o aspecto cultural do cinema como um espaço de comunidade, de acesso à arte na forma mais apropriada pra experimentar ela. Se eu posso ver um filme no Netflix, e o Netflix faz mais dinheiro que uma sala de cinema, o Netflix é mais bem sucedido em exibir aquele filme? É como argumentar que, agora que eu posso olhar pra Mona Lisa na Wikipédia, o Louvre não tem mais razão de existir.

Saia para caminhar

Uma pequena anedota de Fabián, no seu diário:

Walking won’t solve everything. But it won’t make anything worse.

That’s more than you can say for most things we do when we’re stressed, tired, or lost.

You walk to get out of your head. To breathe. To let your mind drift without crashing.