EXCLUSIVE: HBO’s streaming walled garden is coming down, it seems. In a hugely surprising move, Deadline understands that Warner Bros. Discovery is shopping some of its HBO library titles to rival …
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This makes sense. There’s too many streaming services which leads people to piracy. Reducing the number will drive people to the one platform. If you make it easy for people to obtain content the rights holder will get paid.
Something like a syndication model makes a lot of sense. Certainly more sense than every studio or legacy network trying to operate its own streamer. I also see a lot of potential in FAST services like Pluto, Freevee, and Tubi. Locking old content behind a premium-priced ad-free streamer isn’t necessary.
