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Paramount launches hostile bid for Warner Bros

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366 points gniting | 2 comments | 08 Dec 25 14:16 UTC | HN request time: 0.435s | 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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JumpCrisscross ◴[08 Dec 25 16:11 UTC] No.46194014[source]▶
> 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?

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1. observationist ◴[09 Dec 25 00:01 UTC] No.46199475[source]▶
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.

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2. dboreham ◴[09 Dec 25 05:29 UTC] No.46201557[source]▶
We're more likely to get government by "honest AI" than for that to happen.