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by keithwinstein 5319 days ago
Time Warner is trying to sign people up for their subscription service (HBO) -- is it really in their interest to license their content to a competing subscription service?
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It's in their interest to get as many people to pay for their content as they can, and one would think that multiple channels of distribution would be a means to that end.

It's obvious why they don't want to, of course. If they control distribution, the theory goes, they can charge basically whatever they want. And of course they can control legal distribution quite easily, but that's not enough, is it?