• 9point6@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    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

  • the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

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

  • calliope@retrolemmy.com
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    2 months ago

    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.

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      2 months ago

      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.

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        2 months ago

        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”