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Paramount launches hostile bid for Warner Bros

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366 points gniting | 3 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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1970-01-01 ◴[09 Dec 25 01:22 UTC] No.46200185[source]▶
All I can say is welcome back to torrenting. This perpetual "same shit deal for consumers, different corporation" problem doesn't end until copyright kicks the media into public domain. Until then, you can play their content reindeer games[1] or you can download a copy of Reindeer Games[2] and watch it without worrying about ownership foofaraw.

[1] https://www.dictionary.com/e/slang/reindeer-games

[2] predb.me

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TSiege ◴[09 Dec 25 02:08 UTC] No.46200465[source]▶
The problem here isn’t as simple as torrenting. It’s the narrowing of what culture is created and promoted and what isn’t. Paramount is overtly a right wing organization now under the Ellison’s. Part of their bid to WB is “it’d be a shame if trump killed this deal of yours”. Netflix’s groveling or Paramounts success might mean we see less art critical of the government and more that panders to its interest
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sharts ◴[09 Dec 25 02:11 UTC] No.46200483[source]▶
Has WB or Netflix ever been critical of the government?
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afavour ◴[09 Dec 25 02:15 UTC] No.46200510[source]▶
> 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 like Watchmen count too. Fahrenheit 451. Succession was pretty clearly mocking FOX News and its media ecosystem.

Art that’s critical of the government doesn’t literally have to be shouting “Trump bad”, it can be done through critique or mocking of the values it holds.

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1. Forgeties79 ◴[09 Dec 25 02:24 UTC] No.46200556{3}[source]▶
Rewatched Watchmen (show) recently and just wow. It hasn’t aged a day and is truly a masterpiece.
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2. tialaramex ◴[09 Dec 25 14:42 UTC] No.46205407[source]▶
I remember when it hadn't come out and there were mostly images and speculation I was really concerned that Lindelof had no idea what he's doing. A friend who watches a lot more TV than me insisted when it did release that it was very good, and reluctantly I agreed to watch Episode 1, and I knew immediately he got it and I was hooked. Watchmen is about masks, what masks mean, what it means when people wear masks, and Lindelof's TV show takes this somewhere the original book didn't but still remains about masks.

I knew about Tulsa, about Black Wall Street but I didn't know there was actually a plane. I was like, "That's surely creative license" when I saw it. But nope, the racists actually had a fucking plane.

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3. Forgeties79 ◴[09 Dec 25 15:48 UTC] No.46206234[source]▶
I am so embarrassed to admit I didn’t know about Black Wall Street or the Tulsa massacre. And when I learned about it I was shocked I didn’t know about it.

And you’re absolutely right, it’s all about masks and he gets it.