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Netflix Considered Buying EA (www.gamespot.com)
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[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 88 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Kinda funny how much media is out there warning about the folly of allowing this kind of mega conglomeration, yet we're still gonna just do it anyway

[–] maxprime@lemmy.ml 29 points 2 weeks ago

Line. Go. Up.

[–] avg@lemmy.zip 24 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Democrats are too chicken shit to go breaking up monopolies, republicans have sold their souls to corporations so why wouldn't you, as a corporation, try to buy up everything you can while no one is there to stop you.

[–] mushroomman_toad@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

FTC got started on it under Biden

[–] Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 weeks ago

You think this started recently? Or is that just what you have to say.

[–] mycodesucks@lemmy.world 22 points 2 weeks ago

Why start making good decisions now?

[–] remon@ani.social 34 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Didn't the Saudis just buy that?

[–] ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 27 points 2 weeks ago

"Saudis consider buying Netflix"

[–] Thorry@feddit.org 9 points 2 weeks ago

Yes it's called money laundering.

[–] Dojan@pawb.social 2 points 2 weeks ago

And Trump.

[–] the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world 24 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I mean why not? EA has already enshittified itself years ago, it would have saved netflix the trouble of doing it themselves.

[–] Bbbbbbbbbbb@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Saudis got it

[–] Quacksalber@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 weeks ago

No more FemShep on Liara action, that's banned now. Future ME games will only feature the Quarrians, because they are already "veiled".

[–] superglue@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 weeks ago

I wish they would take Madden away from EA every single year its a pile on garbage

[–] Zapados@sh.itjust.works 17 points 2 weeks ago

How long until the Saudis buy Netflix?

[–] calliope@retrolemmy.com 15 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

This is starting to feel like advertising for Netflix.

Even before they bought one of the most passed-around media companies (Warner was owned by AOL, for god’s sake), the media wouldn’t shut up about the possibility of Netflix owning things.

[–] atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

You are confusing WarnerMedia with Warner Bros. Warner Bros. is the movie studio, WarnerMedia is the now defunct remains of AOL TimeWarner that was bought and then disseminated by AT&T.

[–] calliope@retrolemmy.com 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

I’m not sure I follow.

WarnerMedia owned Warner Bros from 1990-2022. WarnerMedia was called WarnerMedia because they owned Warner Bros.

It’s the same company, since the 1970s. Kinney Corporation merged with Warner to become Warner Communications. They owned… Warner Bros.

Warner Communications became WarnerMedia. They owned Warner Bros. Source.

In 1990, they merged with Time and became Time Warner. And so on. Again, it was called AOL Time Warner because they owned Warner Bros.

You can also see it on the Warner Bros. page under “parent”

[–] atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Warner merged with AOL, so you meant Warner Bros was owned by AOL not Warner. That’s what I was trying to point out.

[–] calliope@retrolemmy.com 4 points 2 weeks ago

Ah got it!

It’s honestly crazy how many companies it’s been attached to

[–] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Hey Netflix, if you have so much money to burn, stop being so evil.

[–] fckreddit@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 weeks ago

But, line must go up, at any cost.

[–] fckreddit@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Well, so did I. /s

[–] voytrekk@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I did too. I was just missing billions of dollars.

[–] fckreddit@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 weeks ago

Same. :(