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Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros

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1741 points meetpateltech | 3 comments | 05 Dec 25 12:21 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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afavour ◴[05 Dec 25 13:44 UTC] No.46161166[source]▶
Any consolidation like this seems like a negative for consumers. But at least it wasn’t bought by Larry Ellison, as was considered very likely (assuming this merger gets approved, in the current administration you never know).

From a Hacker News perspective, I wonder what this means for engineers working on HBO Max. Netflix says they’re keeping the company separate but surely you’d be looking to move them to Netflix backend infrastructure at the very least.

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nonethewiser ◴[05 Dec 25 14:43 UTC] No.46161918[source]▶
> Any consolidation like this seems like a negative for consumers

This is a very common narrative to this news. But coming into this news, I think the most common narrative against streaming was essentially "There is not enough consolidation." People were happy when Netflix was the streaming service, but then everyone pulled their content and have their own (Disney, Paramount, etc.)

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1. sa-code ◴[05 Dec 25 15:08 UTC] No.46162278[source]▶
> There is not enough consolidation

This is an absolutely wild (and incorrect) thing to assume. The problem of content lock-in is anti-competitive and it would be better solved without mergers

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2. supportengineer ◴[06 Dec 25 16:32 UTC] No.46174568[source]▶
As a consumer, I feel that consolidation is wonderful because it is one less account and password and charge on my credit card that I have to think about.
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3. sa-code ◴[07 Dec 25 23:18 UTC] No.46186403[source]▶
As a consumer, you want the streaming service to be decoupled from the studios so your single streaming service can access all the content