Ready the popcorn anons here we go againhttps://unn.ua/en/news/paramount-sues-warner-bros-over-netflix-deal
>>152115927Paramount really is trying to prevent streaming smothering out cinema huh?
>>152115927Stop it, they are already dead.
>>152115927Why bother? NOTHING can shift public opinion in orange fag's favor at this point.
>>152115927The Neflix deal would be the most disastrous outcome for movies, cartoons, comics, theaters, an anyone who prefers to own physical media.
>>152116048Good. Less clutter in my room, apartment or house.
>>152115927what ever happened to the other lawsuit over this buyout the class action one
>>152115927The dumbasses from Paramount don't know when to quit. I mean, WB already made their deal with Netflix, right?
>>152116048Give up your Earthly possessions and achieve true happiness, Anon.
For fuck's sake Paramount, just accept defeat with some dignity.
>>152115927Yeah, because that's an excellent way to convince a company to sell itself to you: suing them and personally interfering with their business. That will definitely convince the stakeholders that you're the better choice and not at all make them want to vote against you out of spite.The funny thing is if Ellison acted normal about the whole thing, maybe he could have bought them over. But his shitty attitude has killed any chances of that.
I don't think Paramount is any better than Netflix after seeing that fat female Jem Hadar, but nevertheless I'd like to see Netflix lose.
>>152115927>two retards fighting
>>152116147I want Paramount to lose just because they're being such sore loser bitches about this. They've been told to fuck off like what, three times now about this deal? Clearly some big nepobaby there not used to not getting his way.
>comply with my shady business practices or elseLANDOFTHEFREEREE
>>152116219>such sore loser bitches about this . . . Clearly some big nepobaby there not used to not getting his wayLike riling up a crowd of rednecks and dudebros because you lost to Sleepy Joe.
>>152116141>make them want to vote against you out of spiteoccasionally I'll see stuff like this and be reminded that everyone else here is a child, unemployed, or at least profoundly poor
>>152115927lawyers get richer, everyone continues to treat corporations as scum.
>>152116141You need to realize we're not just dealing with businessmen, we're dealing with yuppies.They don't even like money, they like winning and the idea that they can leverage anyone into doing what they want. There was a story recently where a fee of them hired a sociologist/ speculative sci-fi writer to figure out how they'd manage to get their hired bunker guards during the apocalypse to be subservient and when he came with the solution of "good and fair leadership and be nice to them", they were upset because there wasn't some big epic secret to exploit and leverage
>>152115927Paramount is getting Netflix shareholders involved, which means Netflix shareholders are willing to override their board of executives and hold a vote on the Paramount bid
>>152116125I'm actually glad you posted that picture instead of the usual one with the white soiboy faggot.
>>152116048Just pirate everything you want on a cheap hard driveThere's your physical media
>>152115927Are they suing WB for their stock?
>>152115927I doubt Paramount can handle the Netflix and WB lawyers, they only seem competent when it comes to lawsuits
>>152116048Meanwhile the Paramount deal means all major news outlets are in the hands of Trump fans who have a vested interest in maintaining a party narrative.
>>152115927>xitter thread
>>152115974Streaming has to die and you hikkihomori faggots needs to touch grass
>>152117158Paramount got the FTC and FCC on their side and FTC + FCC is itching to fuck Netflix and Warner at the same time with the ammount of proofs of shit they had done over the last 10 years, including Tax evasion and money laundering on over inflated and failed projects.This is going to get nasty and it wont end til the end of this year.Zazlav thought that he could leave this without any repercussions at all, but he pissed off a lot of people.
>>152116048>what is self hostingI shiggidy
>>152117991Nah. Nothing ever happens. The Deal will go through and the FCC will just seethe about it.
>>152115974Israel is trying to control american media and turn it into a propoganda weapon. Also to keep tight grips on cinema. But they've been shitting out blackrock approved weaponized media designed to destroy the populace for years now and movies and television are completely fucked. I don't know what they're going to do.
>>152115927On what grounds does Paramount have?WB doesn't think their promise of cash is worth shit, since they can't present said money is real, while Netflix is showing the briefcase full of money, making their offer look real.
>>152118038>C-C-Copethe smell of mouse desperate for this deal to happen>>152118057Zazlav is laundering money and the rumors of WBD evading taxes
>>152117991>the FTCAnon, I love you, I'd take a bullet for you, but this FTC is toothless as a crow. They're good at throwing cases they inherited and waving on mergers, end of list. You've got a better chance of the actual Warner brothers coming back from the dead and putting an undead foot down.
>>152118118Under Biden? yesUnder a very livid orange man who wants to send a message to california after the midterm elections this year, there will be blood and vengeance for all that happened on the previous mandate.
>>152115974Paramout is trying to prevent its own steady decline into financial ruin and obscurity. Please do not trick yourself into believing there is anything noble going on here.
>>152117991>FTC + FCC is itching to fuck Netflix and Warner at the same time with the ammount of proofs of shit they had done over the last 10 years, including Tax evasion and money launderingYou are a fucking moron and if they had any sort of actual firm evidence of either of these they wouldn't wait for a shitty third party to start an unrelated lawsuit.
>>152118057Breach of fiduciary duties.The idea is that the board has not disclosed enough information to the shareholders. They're saying "yeah, yeah, this deal is better, take it" without showing the details of why that is, which might be misleading shareholders, at least according to Paramount.
Would it not be faster, and less embarrassing, for Paramount to- HYPOTHETICALLY!- send an "unaffiliated" team of mercenaries to wipe out Netflix? We're already in a tech-dystopia so why not get some high-level corporate warfare kino to go along with it?
>>152118118This administration isn't special in that regard. It's particularly good at the bad part of the FTC.Most of the time, the goal of heading the FTC is to do your job as little as possible. When you don't stamp on them, you get favors for when you resignAnd you can't just do the job sometimes and not others or you have a suit against with precedent proving you're selectively targeting.
Why do people side with Netflix? Do you WANT WB properties to be Stranger Things season 5 levels of embarrassing?
>>152115927>Ellison absolutely refusing to take no for an answer How many women do you guys think he’s raped?
>>152118481>This administration isn't special in that regardCan you let me pretend it is?
>>152116075>I will own nothing and like it
>>152118494I think people see it as the lesser of two evils
>>152117969Touching grass is fine, but why the fuck do I have to suffer overpriced snack prices, the stench of vomit and more and more straight up COMMERCIALS every time I go to see a movie?!Go neck yourself, poorfag, I have a big TV and a nice house. I'm never going to a movie theater ever again.
>>152115974They're just doing this shit for CNN man, they don't give two craps about anything else.
>>152118494Season 5 wasn't that bad compared to BvS
>>152118516Well that's just it.I will forever let people remember that for as much as people hated the Biden admin, people fucking liked Lina Khan. People like Lina Khan so much that she was not allowed on the Harris campaign trail because Mark Cuban threatened to back trump if she was brought on since people would like her and back her against mergers he was trying to make happen.And the only reason people liked her was because the head of the FTC did their fucking job for once
>>152115927It's always funny to me when corpos sue each other>NOOOOOO YOU CAN'T BREAK THE RULES LIKE THAT, YOU'RE BREAKING THE RULES THE WRONG WAY
>>152118210But they have. They have showed that paramount might be offering more but it's just for discovery too, meanwhile Netflix is offering less overall but it's just for wh stuff. Which is a better deal >>152118478
>>152117099Good luck when they close off the internet, look into digital ids.
>>152115974Yes
in a just a world where the FTC did their job neither of these deals would be allowed to happen.
>>152115983Yes, he has practically already won the midterm elections.
>>152116243In Europe, they put you in jail for telling the truth.
>>152118494The only reason is because "Orange Man bad."People were saying it was the apocalypse that Netflix would buy Warner Bros. until Trump appeared in the picture.
>>152119058You hope.
paramount is dogshit(and poor) and would just run WB into the ground.ideally neither of these deals would be allowed to go through though.
>>152119161I hate corporate mergers into even bigger monopolies as much as the next sane person, but I have a stronger dislike of the idea of the "party of small government" personally stepping in because they don't like the way a merger is going.
>>152119190This year is going to be a bad one for the left, get ready for the chaos that 2026 will bring.
>>152118494Neither are particularly good deals but the paramount one has a shit ton of PE involvement underway and is much more debt financed in addition to the Saudi stuff. That is a huge red flag.Netflix at the very least has the money long enough to cover debts for the purchase while they wait for it to start turning profits. The Paramount one is basically seppuku given all the debt they're probably already under because David Ellison seems to be playing fast and loose as hell on a rapid growth model using external financing aka debt.In other words, as much as we like to say this is over the South Park stuff, Zaslav was being pretty honest in calling the Paramount deal a time bomb because there's a good chance Paramount itself is a time bomb.
>>152119271You have a good point but leftists are also being hypocritical about the whole Netflix issue.I don't care about any of this, I'm just bothered by what the modern left has become.
>>152119343we get it youre a retarded nigger. have fun getting raped by your jigaboo boyfriend tonight faggot
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>>152119343its impossible to fall in line 100% with the right or the left without being a hypocrite on at least a few issues.
>>152119503Yeah, it's never felt so good to be a centrist as it does today.But the lefties have lost their minds since last year; it's incredible how lunatic they've become.
>>152119609from my perspective they've both lost their minds.
>>152119664Nah, the conservatives are the same as always, they're just angrier.The leftists have already started to become full-fledged Nazis.They already sound like /pol/.
>>152119728I think you are a conservative who thinks he is a centrist, many such cases.
>>152119664How cute, you think they ever had it.
>>152116048Yar Har shiggidy dee.Whoever buys out WBIt all makes no difference to meI am a pirate!
>>152119769lol, you've been brainwashed
>>152119885the funny thing is I think the same thing about you.
>>152118141Anon the pattern will be>He orders Head of Department X to do something Illegal>They'll refuse be fired or quit, replaced with one of his cronies>Who is obedient, but a retard>Because of said retardation, said replacement will inevitably fuck up whatever illegal action Trump is ordering, in no small part because whichever legal body he's trying to do it within cares about whether something is legal or not>Cue several attempts at the Law equivalent of jamming a square peg into a round hole
>>152119824Are you stupid?>ParamountExpect a shit ton of projects cancelled, likely anything not tied to a major IP, and expect nothing but IP legacy stuff or something that managed to catch a hype train greenlit. Hell, I'd expect the outright selling of a lot of smaller IPs and divisions. That includes stuff from the Warner Classics library of all things if they can't do any remakes or don't think they'd be able to make a large profit with a hyped up remaster.That "sweetened offer" is being financed heavily by outside private equity groups and banks who are loaning a pretty penny and those fuckers will pounce if the books don't balance on that. The first thing you'll see is an attempt to pay off deals.Remember Paramount doesn't actually want most of the stuff they're buying, they want the big IPs, HBO, and anything that can put them on par as a Disney rival.That's David Ellison's big goal in all honesty. Bragging rights, being the guy who business'd his way into Disney's big rival through the>NetflixA degree of sacrifice during the merger, probably cancellations but they also want most dormant or smaller IPs in their back pocket for a big catalog. They are unrivaled in streaming, not only starting it making a massive comeback and destroying competitors that everyone had assumed had buried them in the late 10s. Their big goal is to keep that lead by adding the Warner library to the Netflix catalog to some degree. They'll also be able to turn HBO Max+Netflix into some kind of bundle, gut the former slowly for core product. As everyone has pointed out the scary part is what it means for theaters and Tv channels. Theaters and tv channels= new IPs can get noticed easier = more new IPs
Can /pol/ fuck off? It's not even a raid anymore, it's people getting bored of their bait not being bit over there and coming over here to spread the same takes. Nobody cares, you're both nerds on an imageboard past its prime. Talk about the Paramount deal etc or shut the fuck up
the paramount deal is just bad since so much of it is borrowed money, paramount is borrowing like 5 times more than they are worth in order to try to buy WB, it has so many ways it could go wrong.
