Warner Bros Joins Disney in Suing Sling TV for Making Streaming Video Cheaper(techdirt.com)

17 pointsby voxadam10 months ago2 comments

Warner Bros Joins Disney in Suing Sling TV for Making Streaming Video Cheaper

https://www.techdirt.com/2025/09/26/warner-bros-joins-disney-in-suing-sling-tv-for-making-streaming-video-cheaper-and-more-convenient/

2 comments

fuzzfactor10 months ago

>Warner Bros lawyer David Yohai argues that this kind of convenience simply cannot be allowed:

    “The passes fundamentally disrupt this industry-standard model by allowing customers to purchase access to the most sought-after programming, such as major sports events, essentially a la carte for a fraction of the cost that the consumer would have had to pay to watch the event on a pay-per-view basis. For example, a sports fan could simply purchase a day pass and watch select programming, such as a highly popular sports game, without purchasing a month-long subscription or paying a higher pay-per-view fee.”

Some of these "businessmen" are such weak performers that anything which could result in the customer getting a better deal is now unfair competition.

With extreme legal consequences in store for anybody who even tries to give a customer their money's worth.

God forbid, that could make so many people embarrassed across-the-board.

It could bring down whole business schools left and right ;)

conover10 months ago

The problem is that these companies are locked into years long, multi-billion dollar contracts with the sports leagues. Those contracts are predicated on their existing monetization model. The economics of those contracts no longer make sense if the model changes. A lot of money is on the line. So they are going to fight hard.