(11-06-2025, 10:26 PM)CompSci87 Wrote: I'm not happy to see Disney playing hardball with YouTube (I e., Google), but neither of them is exactly a little guy struggling against the the big conglomerate. Disney has all the power here as they own a lot of content that any cable replacement streaming service needs to carry, while Google owns none. You can't do much horse trading when the other guy is the only one of the two of you that owns any horses.
As a Disney employee, I was told that Google/YouTube wants a preferential agreement. Disney's proposed agreement costs less overall for the content than the recently-expired deal and is line with what the other distributors are paying.