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Re: Paramount launches hostile bid for Warner Bros

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Post by dboreham »

observationist wrote: post #194
JumpCrisscross wrote: post #40

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> and we'll see meaningful copyright reform Are you betting on the content conglomerate bidding tens of billions, or the nepo baby LBO shop wearing the corpse of a movie studio as a salmon hat to spur copyright reform?

I'm hoping that they're sufficiently absurd in their mere existence to spur questions among the electorate. "Hey, that looks weird, and not right. Maybe we should fix that!" Yeah, I know, way too optimistic.

We're more likely to get government by "honest AI" than for that to happen.

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Post by dboreham »

afavour wrote: post #241
sharts wrote: post #238

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Has WB or Netflix ever been critical of the government?

> Conservatives Take Aim at ‘One Battle After Another’: “Year’s Most Irresponsible Movie” https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/one-batt... > Netflix's 93% RT Hit Show That Has the U.S. Government Furious Is a Streaming Sensation https://collider.com/netflix-boots-streaming-success-after-g... And that’s before we’ve even touched HBO. John Oliver is probably the most obvious example. But I’d say shows li…

Nuremberg

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Post by jonhohle »

orionblastar wrote: post #195
ClikeX wrote: post #173

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Real people work in this industry, though. A merger of this size is bound to come with some layoffs and canceled projects. It's not as bad as food scarcity, of course. But it can do some collateral damage.

Does that mean the DCU Movies might get delayed or canceled?

Instead they’re a 20 part serial with about 5 mins of actual content per episode. Enjoy!

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Post by LunaSea »

xfil wrote: post #99
jm4 wrote: post #33

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He did until they paid him off, fired people he doesn't like and his buddy bought it.

Trump stated this today: > My real problem with the show, however, wasn’t the low IQ traitor, it was that the new ownership of 60 Minutes, Paramount, would allow a show like this to air. THEY ARE NO BETTER THAN THE OLD OWNERSHIP, who just paid me millions of Dollars for FAKE REPORTING about your favorite President, ME! Since they bought it, 60 Minutes has actually gotten WORSE! Oh well, far worse things can happen.

Grandpa forgot that they paid him bribes but his handlers will quickly remind him of it.

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Post by LunaSea »

raw_anon_1111 wrote: post #255
sharts wrote: post #238

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Has WB or Netflix ever been critical of the government?

HBO Max still airs “Last Week with John Oliver”. Even Paramount still has “South Park” and the creators are basically daring Paramount to cancel them.

Didn't the South Park contract predate the Skydance takeover?

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Post by raw_anon_1111 »

LunaSea wrote: post #285
raw_anon_1111 wrote: post #255

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HBO Max still airs “Last Week with John Oliver”. Even Paramount still has “South Park” and the creators are basically daring Paramount to cancel them.

Didn't the South Park contract predate the Skydance takeover?

Yes but Paramount was already debating whether to bribe Trump and clamping down on news shows that reported anything critical of Trump.

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Post by smrq »

sega_sai wrote: post #212

Reading the comments -- it is amazing how quick it takes to from allegedly a democracy governed by a rule of law to a corrupt oligarchy. I personally understand the reasons, but it's a bit "funny" given all the grand-standing before about the founding fathers, checks and balances etc.

Well, it took a lot of people by surprise that our famed checks and balances turned out to be toothless. Schoolhouse Rock sure didn't teach me that when other branches of government try to tell the executive branch to cut it out, they can just reply "no lol get bent".

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Post by thordenmark »

dabockster wrote: post #166
JumpCrisscross wrote: post #21

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It looks like it. $2.8bn by Warner Brothers to Netflix [1]. If the vote looks close, Paramount would be expected to raise their bid to cover that cost. [1] https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1065280/000119312525... 8.3(a)

The failed merger and similar clawback clause between Kroger and Albertsons is currently destroying a significant part of the supply chain for food in the Pacific Northwest. Grocery stores that have been open for 50-75 years - stores where whole neighborhoods and towns were built around - are closing forever, leaving those areas as food deserts. Either way, this entertainment merger is going to get ugly. Consumers ar…

It's not like we aren't drowning in entertainment options.

Food on the other hand, that's a real problem.

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Post by LunaSea »

account42 wrote: post #56
Larrikin wrote: post #4

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The best outcome would be for all of the bids to fail, all the streaming services would bleed money due to people sick of the siloing, and for there to be multiple streaming services competing on experience because they all have access to the same catalog. The second best outcome would be the cartoon villain Larry not getting what he wants.

> and for there to be multiple streaming services competing on experience because they all have access to the same catalog. That's a weird way to write "and for us to go back to owning copies of movies instead of just renting them."

More and more content can't be bought at all due to streaming platforms. That's a real problem.
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