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Paramount launches hostile bid for Warner Bros

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366 points gniting | 1 comments | 08 Dec 25 14:16 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source

Previously: Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46160315 (1333 comments)
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linhns ◴[08 Dec 25 15:53 UTC] No.46193743[source]▶
Sounds like Paramount bosses are bidding in anger.
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observationist ◴[08 Dec 25 16:01 UTC] No.46193862[source]▶
They tilt like everyone else - maybe the chaos and mayhem behind the last few years of this industry mean the old guard is finally failing, and we'll see meaningful copyright reform and sanity in our lifetime.
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staplers ◴[08 Dec 25 16:20 UTC] No.46194144[source]▶

  we'll see meaningful copyright reform and sanity in our lifetime.
That seems wildly naive... gestures broadly at world
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Levitz ◴[08 Dec 25 17:05 UTC] No.46194770{3}[source]▶
The rest of the world is the one thing that gives me hope in this regard, really.

It feels like year by year, Asia, even China, is becoming more and more culturally relevant. Western media is just too damn stagnant.

Hollywood used to be known as possibly the most important cultural powerhouse history has seen. It might still be that, but it certainly doesn't feel like it anymore.

Or maybe I'm just getting old.

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1. actionfromafar ◴[08 Dec 25 23:15 UTC] No.46199014{4}[source]▶
China rising should not comfort anyone except Xi. They are all about raw power.