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So all that stuff they were saying about how it was financially impossible to do this was just PR fabrication? I never would have suspected.
by protonfish 12y ago
So all that stuff they were saying about how it was financially impossible to do this was just PR fabrication? I never would have suspected.
- jdmichal 12y agoIt may very well have been financially impossible, if they had a contract in place preventing them from doing it. Circumstances change, contracts expire...
- protonfish 12y agoI assure you that was not what they were saying. I have been trying to find the AMA some VP of HBO did on Reddit (basically as a response to this http://theoatmeal.com/comics/game_of_thrones http://theoatmeal.com/comics/game_of_thrones ) where they "explained" why they just simple cannot put their content online and the Redditors lapped it up.
- chc 12y agoI don't think "financially impossible" was the phrase they used. As far as I know, they simply seemed to feel it was disadvantageous at that time.
- wmf 12y agoI think the financials depend on the ratio of cable subscribers to cord cutters, and that ratio has been changing over time.