Did Ben Affleck Predict Spotify and Netflix in 2003?
In 2003 while promoting The Battle of Shaker Heights, Ben Affleck pretty much predicted the dawn of services like Spotify and Netflix when he said “I think an annual subscription-based system is one that works…It will be movies on-demand but it will be a tiered structure.” He then went on to talk about music saying the music industry would see peer-to-peer file-sharing piracy as a necessary transition point of consumer habits that the industry would eventually catch up with and the industry would “catch up in 5 years”, Spotify would launch in 2008 and Netflix began to stream in 2007. It’s unfortunate he couldn’t predict flops like Jersey Girl and Gigli.
… wow. Ben Affleck perfectly predicting Spotify and Netflix in a random 2003 interview
Almost exactly right about the unit economics of annual music subscriptions and the timing of online movie streaming. Solid point too on how shareware (Napster) is a necessary predecessor pic.twitter.com/mpEgRPK4zL
— John Backus (@backus) July 8, 2018
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