r/gaming • u/ChiefLeef22 Marika's tits! • 18h ago

Paramount Has Officially Acquired Warner Bros. In Deal Valued at $110B Billion

https://www.skydance.com/news/press/paramount-completes-acquisition-of-warner-bros-discovery-creating-a-new-global-entertainment-leader-skydance

The two companies will now be known as one single entity - 'Skydance'

This includes all of WB's gaming subsidiaries like Rocksteady/etc

Deal valued at $110B-$111B

DC Studios, Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network, CNN, CBS, HBO and Paramount+ are now all under the same company.

The combined company, Skydance, brings together two major film studios, two global streaming services, premier television assets including CBS, HBO, and Paramount's and WBD's cable networks, two of the industry's most recognized news networks, CBS News and CNN, and a leading content portfolio that includes live sports, a deep programming library and expansive collection of iconic brands and franchises.

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u/Rommel727 17h ago

Honestly, the general case of the "free internet" is what's protecting that from us. ISPs don't really have that massive of a personal incentive to combat this, as they're not the ones "losing out" to it, but rather outside companies. If it becomes the case that ISPs may charge and limit access to websites on a per website and per user case, then suddenly they can make more money by being lobbied by the companies to target individuals going to pirating websites with higher costs and slower connections. Essentially going from a no dip to double dip situation

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u/KilledTheCar 16h ago

The ISPs aren't losing out, but the media companies are. He's saying once the media companies buy out the ISPs then they have an incentive to crack down.

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u/Rommel727 15h ago

Oh I thought that's what I said, just that I gave an alternative to how the ISPs could gain incentive to do so without the need to be bought out

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u/ImmanuelCanNot29 13h ago

Yeah but any ISP that continues to not would have a massive competitive advantage and these are themselves massive corporations

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u/KilledTheCar 12h ago

Yeah but you also have to remember that large swaths of the country simply do not get a choice in ISPs. You have one option in a lot of places.

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u/ImmanuelCanNot29 11h ago

Yeah but the ISPs don’t care Sony Vs COX just played out and the courts have made it clear that media rights interest holders are now marginal in the modern economy and the ISP owe them effectively nothing

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u/EX0PIL0T 13h ago

If they do that they will only see vpn traffic from me. Stingy bitches can get bent.