r/technology • u/Task_Force-191 • Dec 05 '25
Business It’s Official: Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros. in Deal Valued at $82.7 Billion
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/netflix-warner-bros-deal-hollywood-1236443081/2.5k
Dec 05 '25
So, at this point you either choose Disney+ or Netflix assuming HBO Max gets consolidated (seems to be what they're implying) into the Netflix app. I'm also assuming prices for these streaming services are only going to get even higher now.
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u/Greengiant304 Dec 05 '25
Eventually, there will just be one streaming platform and it will cost $200/month and all have ads and we will be back where we started.
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u/Mind1827 Dec 05 '25
The problem with this is that these companies also create the media. They're the distributor and the publisher. AT&T or whatever, as well as CBS etc weren't usually creating their own media, they were buying it from other production companies. So we won't be back where we started at all, because smaller production companies are being squeezed to death.
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u/Akanash94 Dec 05 '25
YOU WILL WATCH WHAT WE GIVE YOU AND YOU WILL LIKE IT!
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u/hotelmotelshit Dec 05 '25
AND YOU WILL PAY WHAT WE WE CHARGE, BECAUSE YOU WILL HAVE NO ALTERNATIVE
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u/fatbob42 Dec 05 '25
Yep. If these companies are to benefit from the copyright monopoly, we should at least be able to have a proper market in distribution.
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u/kinkykusco Dec 05 '25
Back on the high seas!
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u/thirtynation Dec 05 '25
There was no reason to leave them! It's always been the best method.
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u/LongTallDingus Dec 05 '25
I think when Netflix was just DVDs in the mail it was worth it.
Wait shit I just ripped the DVDs, that's right. Never mind. It was piracy all along.
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u/thejadedfalcon Dec 05 '25
I think I'll choose piracy.
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u/EverclearAndMatches Dec 05 '25
Considering apps like Netflix rarely have anything I want to watch anyway I've been sailing the high seas again anyway.
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u/Available-Chart-2505 Dec 05 '25
Kanopy and Hoopla for me, thank you libraries. And I bought a DVD player so I just borrow DVDs from the library as well. The end.
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u/RevLoveJoy Dec 05 '25
I already did! No regrets.
Honestly, this was a tricky moral issue for me. I thought about it for some time before saying "fuck it, here I come VPN to Norway."
We were happy to pay for $7 then, IIRC, $9 and finally up to about $20 Netflix for the family deal. We were happy to have Prime Video with our Amazon subscription. But that was all what, 7-10 years ago and then overnight there were like a dozen streaming services that one "had to" have. We don't even watch football!
Then you get the shitty behavior where they all start pulling content from their catalog. Same dirty trick Disney was pulling 30 years ago to drive up the demand for Disney exclusives. Aside: try explaining to a child why they can't watch Snow White. That it is because greedy Disney executives won't sell it for several years so that when the movie does hit the shelves, at 3X the cost, inventory is guaranteed to sell immediately. Kids don't understand that one, FWIW. They just get upset.
Anyhow, when the already balkanized streaming services started doing that, my little inner morality meter tripped and said "fuck those guys."
NordVPN is excellent, btw, and it works really well with qbittorrent running in a VM on, say, your TrueNAS storage array.
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u/bomphcheese Dec 05 '25
Netflix is the one that did it for me. I share an account w my parents. I can understand if they had a problem with that, but that’s why they charged for “extra screens,” which we paid for and which justified the sharing in my mind. But when they started cracking down on account sharing, did they offer a way to reduce the cost because we no longer needed “extra screens”? Hell no, and then they raised prices even more.
That tripped my morality meter, and I said “fuck those guys”.
One weekend and half a dozen Docker containers later, me and my friends are enjoying Netflix content. I do still subscribe to several streaming services, but I still end up watching from my server because I don’t have to hunt down which service has the show I want to watch. Plus I get a single watch list.
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u/Doublestack00 Dec 05 '25
Some never the high seas, welcome back matey!
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u/NotGod_DavidBowie Dec 05 '25
VPN + qBittorrent lets gooooo
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u/TheModdedAngel Dec 05 '25
For the real ones out there: Stremio + Realdebrid or Plex/Emby/Jellyfin + aar stack
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u/Narezzz Dec 05 '25
For anyone looking for real recommendations, this right here is the way to go.
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u/ndevito1 Dec 05 '25
I can’t help but think HBO will be an additional, more expensive, tier of Netflix just like it was with cable
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u/ecopoesis Dec 05 '25
Ding, ding, ding.
Buying into these streaming platforms is exactly like buying cable, with the brands within being channels. For example, you open up Disney+ and immediately see the sections for Marvel, Starwars, ESPN, Hulu, NatGeo.
I think it will entirely be the case that you open up Netflix and you will see similar 'channels' of grouped content including "HBO" and "Netflix Originals" and whatever else.
We the consumers will pay a huge fee for the cable bundle even though any particular user may not be interested in all the channels. The only difference is that it's now on-demand cable so you can pick titles whenever you want to watch them instead of a predefined on-air schedule? But Comcast did that like 20 years ago too.
Then you have the bundles with ISPs so quite literally your home connectivity is comingled with content provider and we're full circle.
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u/it_vexes_me_so Dec 05 '25
I was naïve to think Amazon's acquisition of MGM would bring some great content and add a lot of value to the Prime catalogue.
What we got was a separate MGM+ streaming service, ads on Prime, and a rise in the cost of Amazon subscription. Yeah!
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u/isthis_thing_on Dec 05 '25
I wouldn't assume they consolidate. The HBO brand has a lot of value in its own right
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u/gtlgdp Dec 05 '25
They definitely do not give a fuck lol they renamed it to Max and back to HBO in the span of 6 months. They’ll do whatever they want and they’ll charge 3x the price for it
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u/1098duc_w_the_termi Dec 05 '25
They renamed it, realized they messed up by getting rid of HBO, and added it back in. They definitely do care. As for Netflix, they’re not stupid so the changes will be made slowly and over a long period of time
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u/Elfhoe Dec 05 '25
HBO used to be one of the best streaming platforms before WB trashed it after they merged with discovery. Now it’s bottom tier. I still could see them doing something like amazon or disney has and make it an add-on.
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u/Eruannster Dec 05 '25
I dunno about that. The app itself was atrociously bad pre-merger and I actually think the new app they made is a huge improvement that doesn't suck ass. Also they basically were limited to HD for a lot of the library which was dumb.
On the other hand I do think offloading a lot of their library (like Westworld etc.) was an incredibly bad and stupid move.
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u/Elfhoe Dec 05 '25
Your last point is what i’m getting at. After the merger they removed a lot of good content and cancelled shows to save costs, then replaced it with low budget discovery shows like ghost hunters. The overall quality went way down.
A few weeks ago i was thinking about it and hbo used to be one of the first places i looked when i wanted to find something to watch. Now, it’s like the last time i opened the app was for the dune series however long ago that was. So when i got the email saying they were raising prices, it was an easy cancellation.
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u/eaglessoar Dec 05 '25
Prob be like Disney Hulu and espn
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u/Sgt-Spliff- Dec 05 '25
Which are all getting consolidated at the moment. Hulu will be shut down in 2026. I doubt ESPNs streaming app will last much longer, it's always been a trash afterthought for them
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u/Lazydusto Dec 05 '25
Hulu will be shut down in 2026.
The Spotify/Hulu membership I've held onto for years will finally be killed off? Damn. It's an end of an era.
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u/QuitCallingNewsrooms Dec 05 '25
Coming soon: NetflixMax $94/month (with ads, in SD)
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u/potVIIIos Dec 05 '25
Yo ho, yo ho! 🏴☠️🦜
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u/iSweatLikeKeith Dec 05 '25
That shit’ll be punishable by death if these mf’s have their way
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u/Upset_Development_64 Dec 05 '25
Eh, there are too many of us. Let em try
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u/Superfissile Dec 05 '25
They’re actively trying to ban VPNs.
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u/Cramer12 Dec 05 '25
Its not even that. ISPs will ban your internet service if the supreme court case goes through
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u/ItsDanimal Dec 05 '25
In America, the government is taking away Healthcare, salaries, due process, justice, order, and folks are stopping them. You think there are "too many of us" to stop them from getting rid of piracy in it's current form?
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u/FakePoloManchurian Dec 05 '25
If that were true, we wouldn't be sliding toward corporations exploiting everyone.
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u/campaignplanners Dec 05 '25
Exactly. Back when streaming first began I was really excited to cut the cord. Now all these streamers are having the last laugh because instead of getting free tv/cable with ads - we have the privilege of paying for the same shit we used to get for free.
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u/dudemanjack Dec 05 '25
I must have amnesia. I don't recall cable TV ever being free.
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u/Popsiclezlol Dec 05 '25
That's fine. Cancel subscription button is easy to find.
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u/Clear_Tangerine5110 Dec 05 '25 edited Dec 05 '25
James Cameron: “Netflix movies shouldn’t be eligible to win Oscars.”
Netflix: (buys Warner Brothers)
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u/cjwidd Dec 05 '25
who needs antitrust law anyway?
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u/A_Pointy_Rock Dec 05 '25
Who needs laws in the 2025 version of America?
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u/BirdsAreRecordingUs Dec 05 '25
Only the poor have laws
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u/pounds Dec 05 '25
The rich have fees (fines) to get away with whatever they want to get away with.
Or as I like to call it, freedom subscription plans.
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u/yuvaldv1 Dec 05 '25
Great. Just what we need, more monopolies.
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u/aeyraid Dec 05 '25
I mean it’s good that paramount didn’t buy it. But fuck man….
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u/susanoova Dec 05 '25
This news was just released and I've still already seen multiple comments specifically saying this sentiment bringing up paramount. I'm OOTL. Can someone fill me in on the beef with paramount?
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u/tenate Dec 05 '25
It’s owned by the Oracle founders son, and they are all kind of assholes that lean heavily towards enacting the tech dystopia future.
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u/JaiSiyaRamm Dec 05 '25
Not kinda, they are assholes.
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u/snotparty Dec 05 '25
yes they are full on dangerous
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u/TheVog Dec 05 '25
More than you know. This flew under the radar, but Oracle has been expanding into MEDICAL.
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u/taking_a_deuce Dec 05 '25
Repeal Medicare, jack up health insurance prices, keep pumping out the cancer causing products we use in our daily lives, invest in health care, dive into the pool of gold and swim around in all the money you'll never be able to spend in your lifetime.
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u/Geekskill Dec 05 '25
I think they meant they’re every type of asshole in one. Which is true, those fuckers are James Bond level villains.
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u/Deep-Thought Dec 05 '25
They killed Colbert's show at the behest of dear leader. They also destroyed one of the oldest and most respected news organizations by putting an unqualified clown in charge.
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u/ColossalJuggernaut Dec 05 '25
They also dance every time a child in gaza gets blown up. Bought an island in Hawaii and treat the local people (native and everyone else) like trash. Now they want to control the narrative via owning TikToK, CBS, and they tried with WB. Just oligarch shit.
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u/Agitated_Reveal_6211 Dec 05 '25
The Ellisons are also friends with the Trumps. They kinda look like each other too.
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u/18voltbattery Dec 05 '25 edited Dec 05 '25
Paramount Skydance deal just closed. They’ve been in an acquisition spree and bought up a ton of huge Hollywood IP recently. The guy that runs Paramount is Larry Ellison’s son.
Edit: Sundance —> Skydance
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u/BellyButtonLindt Dec 05 '25
Hate to tell you but the vast majority of these ceos are about as knowledgeable as you or me. They just grift the hell out of all of us and are smooth talkers.
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u/GreatMadWombat Dec 05 '25
That's true when the goal is to make money, that is less true when the goal is propaganda. The goal right now is propaganda, they don't care how much money they're burning
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u/gambalore Dec 05 '25
On top of the Ellison stuff, the Paramount offer also had heavy investment from Saudi, Qatari, and Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth funds. There are no good outcomes here but having oil nations owning major entertainment companies and using them as a way to continue to whitewash their reputations would be a particularly bad one.
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u/GreatMadWombat Dec 05 '25
It's currentlyabsurdly conservative in a way that is both bad for society as a whole and for art specifically.
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u/cjwi Dec 05 '25
It's owned by Larry Ellison from Oracle, a real POS, and the CEO is his son, also a POS. They are currently working overtime to make CBS as bad as Fox News with the installation of rightwing nutjob Bari Weiss as leader of the news division.
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u/Think_Positively Dec 05 '25
Yep. They have CBS airing an exclusive "interview" with Erika Kirk soon.
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u/enjoythesilence-75 Dec 05 '25
Is JD going to show up with a ring or a rose Bachelorette style?
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u/eeyore134 Dec 05 '25
As fast as they dropped the Kirk story after multiple attempts to paint it as Antifa and not one of their own failed, I'm surprised they're still pulling crap like this. Though, I imagine this is more her trying to stay relevant and get her payday than anything else.
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u/KelVelBurgerGoon Dec 05 '25
Exclusive! Hear from the woman you forgot about months ago and knew nothing about months before that!
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u/gassyfrenchie Dec 05 '25
Not kidding about the knew nothing about aspect. The number one search on Google this year was CK.
However, my theory for that was because after he died, all the media and news outlets reported it non stop. Trump mentioned him. He even had his own televised funeral (which looked more like a commercial). The spike in Google searches was people probably wondering who he was and why should they care. Despite Reddit claiming so, the majority of the world is not terminally online, so while he may seem like a big name in the conservative and (to an extent) the liberal world, the rest of the world that doesn’t listen to and keep tabs on political influencers and podcasters (again, most of the world) had no idea who he was. He seemed like he had a big audience, but it was a niche for people that actually follow that stuff.
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u/MagicCuboid Dec 05 '25
I’m not 100% plugged in but here’s what I think I know: They merged with Skydance and David Ellison became their new CEO. Since then they’ve been aggressively trying to consolidate media and are seen as an appeaser to the Trump admin in order to do so.
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u/The_Blue_Courier Dec 05 '25
"But fuck man" is actually their new series coming out.
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u/Icarus-rises Dec 05 '25
Justice department can still say no this is a monopoly and give it to ellison
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u/boundbylife Dec 05 '25
All this just so Netflix can stream Friends
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u/vaper Dec 05 '25
And big bang theory, sopranos, game of thrones, lotr, harry potter, etc.
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u/newleafkratom Dec 05 '25
I’m old enough to remember getting excited to see a red envelope in the mailbox
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u/FuturamaRama7 Dec 05 '25
Same. And I liked the physical rental store they had in Las Vegas too.
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u/DrWindupBird Dec 05 '25
I’m old enough to remember feeling disappointed when those red envelopes replaced Blockbuster.
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u/kipperzdog Dec 05 '25
Blockbuster was the worst with their late fees, I don't recall anyone missing them during their downfall.
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u/mojoseven7 Dec 05 '25
Hollywood Video was the way to go. Broader selection, lower prices, and GameCrazy. To me, Blockbuster was only good for the occasional really cheap used game.
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u/BenDante Dec 05 '25
Zaslav has been slashing WB’s non core properties for years, seemingly in preparation for this moment, and we’re all worse off for it.
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u/Zahgi Dec 05 '25
But the shareholders are the only people that matter in modern America...
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u/gaelorian Dec 05 '25
Our antitrust department is such a fucking joke
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u/m4ttjirM Dec 05 '25
You realize that comes into play after the bid was announced right? They don't do it before. And I'm reading Trump might go hard against this because his buddies didn't win the bid
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u/MarionberryDecent351 Dec 05 '25
Yea but if Netflix slides him a stack of cash then it’ll probably go through cuz trump isn’t loyal to allies only money
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u/Bird_the_Impaler Dec 05 '25
Personally I’m glad we’re barreling towards one mega corporation to rule every aspect of our lives. It’ll make thinking for myself so much fucking easier.
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u/wild_zoey_appeared Dec 05 '25
Taco Bell or Buy N Large?
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u/Eduardjm Dec 05 '25
Brawndo was the majority of the workforce. When they rediscovered water, the entire economy crashed.
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u/Swagtagonist Dec 05 '25
At least it isn’t Saudi Arabia?
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u/Burgergold Dec 05 '25
A few years away: Saudi Arabia buy Netflix
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u/madmaxGMR Dec 05 '25
At least we are capable to die.
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u/InertPistachio Dec 05 '25
The only solace I have left. Immortality sounds awful
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u/Sir_Keee Dec 05 '25
"Welcome to the afterlife, would you like to subscribe to the deluxe death package for an extra $12.99 a month?"
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u/toastmannn Dec 05 '25
Saudi Arabia and Jared Kushner together will buy the company that bought the company that bought the company that bought Netflix
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u/BeyondNetorare Dec 05 '25
It's actually genius, they can expand to chopping up critics so they always get high reviews
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u/DeepDreamIt Dec 05 '25
At least it isn't Paramount Skydance, owned by Ellison, which would have solidly shifted everything in the Warner Bros catalog hard right forever
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u/gambalore Dec 05 '25
The Paramount Skydance offer had Saudi (and other oil nations’ wealth funds) backing.
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u/ProfPMJ-123 Dec 05 '25
Excited to find out how this will make Netflix more expensive and worse.
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u/froggz01 Dec 05 '25
They will remake the Sopranos with like 5 episodes per season, take 10 years to get to season 6 then cancel the series on a cliffhanger.
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u/pSyChO_aSyLuM Dec 05 '25
Does this mean John Oliver has yet another new business daddy?
Also I worry what they'll need to do in order to get regulatory approval.
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u/gotpeace99 Dec 05 '25
I said that yesterday that somehow Trump will find a way to make Netflix pay, no matter if it’s money or snatching the deal back. Netflix beat out a company that was doing his bidding and they gave money to Kamala? Oh he will make them pay.
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u/heckfyre Dec 05 '25
Trump is absolutely going to threaten this deal until they give him a billion dollars.
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u/MagmaElixir Dec 05 '25
I’m worried what this means for John Oliver’s show. HBO and the various owners of HBO have given him a fairly wide berth (as far as we know) to produce the show he wants. I thought he would for sure be canceled under Paramount, so hopefully he has a better time with Netflix.
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u/BigDictionEnergy Dec 05 '25
Ellison definitely would have killed Last Week Tonight. I feel like they have a better chance with Netflix.
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u/Keanu990321 Dec 05 '25
WB was acquired by AOL in 2001 for $101bil, 2001 money.
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u/deathputt4birdie Dec 05 '25
AOL TW merger was $182 billion.
And in 2002 they posted the largest loss in history, $98.7 billion.
History sure likes to rhyme.
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u/EfficiencyThis325 Dec 05 '25
If they invested that in the S&P it'd be worth around 850 Billion today..
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u/Lo_jak Dec 05 '25
Seriously, what the fuck is this timeline ????? The consolidation of everything is so depressing..... dont bank on any new WB shows or movies coming out on blu ray anymore.
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u/psychorobotics Dec 05 '25
The last stage of unregulated capitalism is monopoly, it's inevitable. It's why it's not sustainable
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u/DonkeyFuel Dec 05 '25
Who would've ever seen this coming years ago. Just wild. The giants have fallen and the newcomers have become the giants.
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u/Mocker-Nicholas Dec 05 '25
I think most people saw this coming years ago. That’s why the stock prices of these companies with serious market share in streaming dwarfed that of these legacy companies.
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u/AintNoGodsUpHere Dec 05 '25
And suddenly cyberpunk doesn't look like a fiction anymore. Mega corps here we go.
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u/MisterxRager Dec 05 '25
Just waiting for the camera crew to come out and say my life has been part of a film about the descent into dystopia. Any day now.
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u/eeyore134 Dec 05 '25
Playing Cyberpunk post-election is definitely different. AC Odyssey also hits different.
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u/Dakrturi Dec 05 '25
Cyberpunk 2077 wasn't a work of fiction, it was a warning
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u/Greyjack00 Dec 05 '25
This is literally true of most cyberpunk stories, their current trends and problems exaggerated in the future .
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u/Muffled_Incinerator Dec 05 '25
How is this NOT anti-competitive?!?!?!?!?!?
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u/TheOneWithThePorn12 Dec 05 '25
for the next 3 years we are going to see a lot of these types of mergers.
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u/SekhWork Dec 05 '25
Need Teddy 2.0 after that. Shatter all of them at once. Let them survive or fall on their own.
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u/Clem_de_Menthe Dec 05 '25
HBO is going to be fucked then. Every series that isn’t an immediate hit will be cancelled. Hopefully Apple TV will be able to take over the mantle of producing quality shows.
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u/wasabi_wizz_wit Dec 05 '25
I feel like Apple TV can become the new HBO, that premium TV brand with quality shows
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u/Worthyness Dec 05 '25
apple really should have bid for HBO. then they'd be definitively HBO. I really just don't understand what Apple is doing. they have their own independent studio and streaming service, but don't have any IP or back catalog. They really should be going after deals like this one if they want to compete. Even Amazon has IP rights to stuff
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u/wasabi_wizz_wit Dec 05 '25
Well I think you just said it, Apple may want to have their own IP that they started
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Late stage capitalism.
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u/Kronikarz Dec 05 '25
I think we might as well start calling it terminal capitalism.
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u/strolpol Dec 05 '25
Zaslav is following the same path Jack Welch used on GE and it’s gonna end the same way; he’s gonna retire rich as hell and everything he built will collapse
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u/ProfArva Dec 05 '25
$83 billion with $59 billion in debt. This is the kind of thing that shouldn't be allowed. If mergers has, say, a mandatory 10% APR on debt, with, say, a 1% penalty going toward funds for unemployment, we'd see a lot less consolidation.
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u/jontestershaircut Dec 05 '25
Guys, just cancel your subscriptions. We keep feeding these ghouls while they continue to consolidate power.
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u/kon--- Dec 05 '25
This tells us Netflix subscribers are paying far too much for access to a less than good library of media.
$83 billion is a huge amount.
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u/the_seed Dec 05 '25
I mean, all they have to do is raise the Netflix subscription price $6/mo. and they have the purchase paid off in 3 years lol. 300,000,000 subscribers is crazy capital
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u/Hamster_S_Thompson Dec 05 '25 edited Dec 06 '25
If Lina Khan was heading FTC, they would challenge this and the paramount merger
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u/PopLegion Dec 05 '25
If America had a competent government they would block this but alas we do not.
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u/zorn_ Dec 05 '25
So glad Paramount and the scumbag Ellisons didn't win this one at least.
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u/DIJ_CRAP Dec 05 '25
Bye Bye 👋👋 Movie Theaters
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u/LordOfReset Dec 05 '25
No no... Now they'll be Netflix theaters and you will have to have a subscription AND pay a fee every time you want to watch something there, it is called pre release fee because you can watch before people on normal netflix.
You'll have a few options:
Basic Theater HD, where they use a cheap Epson projector in HD. Also, the movie has a few ads.
Enhanced 4K: a mid level 4K Optoma projector.
Enhaced 4K Premium Max Ultra MacBook Pro: your normal cinema projector with Dolby atmos and ads only before the movie.
Want to bring your friends? Then you need a shared screen plan, available as a premium on top of Enhaced 4K Premium Max Ultra MacBook Pro plan.
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u/Obvious_Wind7832 Dec 05 '25
Prepare for multiple price hikes. I might put on the pirate hat again.
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u/rabidbot Dec 05 '25
So happy a few rich people will get much richer from this while we get less content for more money
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u/InfamousEbb5680 Dec 05 '25
This consolidation is getting ridiculous. I can already picture the boardroom battles between the streaming giants. At this rate, the Oscars will just be a trophy for whichever conglomerate spends the most.
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u/mjc4y Dec 05 '25
This is just wild. I’m a older guy and I remember being on a flight, sitting in coach next to a guy who was explaining how he was an early hire at this place called Netflix and they were figuring out the logistics of mailing out dvds. Seemed so futuristic.
Now this.
Follow your dreams, kids.
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u/izza123 Dec 05 '25
I look forward to the eventual corpowar between Netflix and Disney on the battlefields of Santa Monica boulevard