Warner Bros Joins Disney in Suing Sling TV for Making Streaming Video Cheaper

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Warner Bros is suing Sling TV for allegedly making streaming video cheaper and more convenient, joining Disney in a similar lawsuit, sparking debate about copyright law and the streaming industry.

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fuzzfactor

3 months ago

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>Warner Bros lawyer David Yohai argues that this kind of convenience simply cannot be allowed:

    “The passes fundamentally disrupt this industry-standard model by allowing customers to purchase access to the most sought-after programming, such as major sports events, essentially a la carte for a fraction of the cost that the consumer would have had to pay to watch the event on a pay-per-view basis. For example, a sports fan could simply purchase a day pass and watch select programming, such as a highly popular sports game, without purchasing a month-long subscription or paying a higher pay-per-view fee.”

Some of these "businessmen" are such weak performers that anything which could result in the customer getting a better deal is now unfair competition.

With extreme legal consequences in store for anybody who even tries to give a customer their money's worth.

God forbid, that could make so many people embarrassed across-the-board.

It could bring down whole business schools left and right ;)

conover

3 months ago

The problem is that these companies are locked into years long, multi-billion dollar contracts with the sports leagues. Those contracts are predicated on their existing monetization model. The economics of those contracts no longer make sense if the model changes. A lot of money is on the line. So they are going to fight hard.

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