Help! My Heart is Full of Pony! - Netflix

With Seasons 5-8 gone from Netflix, how long before "Starlight Glimmer vs. Giant Netflix Monster" becomes a viral trend in fan art?

Discuss.
-Sprocket

Comments

[Olden Bronie]

Revenge of Starlight Glimmer when?!

[dvdspires]

More than what we’ve got here in the UK. All that’s left is season 1, the magic specials for Equestria girls and the gen 5 movie. That’s a lot taken off and even iTunes, which didn’t have much to start with, has lost plenty.

[Sprocket Doggingsworth]

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That's awful.

[Reese]

...Now I'm wondering what a Giant Netflix Monster looks like...

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I really don't get why this happens. I mean, if it was Hasbro preferring one location over another, and multiple locations competing to be the one that has all/the most episodes, sure. But for them not to be available anywhere? I mean. People want to see them, right? Why is it apparently not profitable to provide them in digital form? I could see not wanting to risk making a DVD run that might end up taking up warehouse space or something, but online? And on the streaming service's side, if few people want to watch it, the fees to have it or whatever should be low, and if lots of people want to watch it, it should be worth it to pay them, right? Or... it should be possible to come to some deal, since both parties would rather make some profits than no profits off it. Right?
I don't get it.

[Sprocket Doggingsworth]

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Licensing laws are really complicated and counterintuitive.

[Reese]

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Apparently so!