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It’s a tiny bit of news. Time Warner is no longer letting Netflix buy DVDs of HBO original programming at a discount. Netflix now has to pay retail prices on the open market instead of wholesale to send HBO DVDs through the mail.

This doesn’t change the availability of HBO TV and movies on Netflix; Netflix will still buy them. And it doesn’t change how much customers pay for a DVD plan. So why should anyone care about what a company pays its suppliers? Why does this matter?

It matters because HBO isn’t just a supplier to Netflix. HBO and Netflix are a...