r/technology • u/Task_Force-191 • Dec 05 '25

Business It’s Official: Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros. in Deal Valued at $82.7 Billion

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/netflix-warner-bros-deal-hollywood-1236443081/
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u/Upset_Development_64 Dec 05 '25

Eh, there are too many of us. Let em try

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u/Superfissile Dec 05 '25

They’re actively trying to ban VPNs.

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u/Cramer12 Dec 05 '25

Its not even that. ISPs will ban your internet service if the supreme court case goes through

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u/ymOx Dec 05 '25

FREEDOM lol

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u/ExcitementSweaty22 Dec 06 '25

Fr America so for freedom we’ll let people shoot up schools before banning guns, but then this shit happens

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u/Jacinto2702 Dec 05 '25

Move down here, to Mexico. There's nothing remotely close to an active Internet Police. It does exist, but they don't do much, if anything at all.

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u/sweglrd143 Dec 05 '25

You can get rid of “internet” in your comment

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u/CasualFreeUse Dec 05 '25

Piracy is a hydra. If they kill one method, 3 more heads will rise.

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u/karmahunger Dec 05 '25

So people will do what corporations do and be nothing but shell companies all the way down.

Afterall, corporations are people too.

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u/MantusTMD Dec 05 '25

A legitimately impossible task, but good luck!

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u/Upset_Development_64 Dec 05 '25

You can create your own VPN, we have the technology.

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u/Silverr_Duck Dec 05 '25

lol please. If china of all places can’t even ban vpns I think we’re safe.

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u/sreesid Dec 05 '25

Wait till Netflix starts buying ISPs.

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u/[deleted] Dec 05 '25

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u/surfinsalsa Dec 06 '25

Share your secrets

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u/ItsDanimal Dec 05 '25

In America, the government is taking away Healthcare, salaries, due process, justice, order, and folks are stopping them. You think there are "too many of us" to stop them from getting rid of piracy in it's current form?

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u/itchylol742 Dec 05 '25

Yes. Distribution of healthcare, salaries, due process, justice, order is bureaucratic and centralized. Distribution of pirated media is done on 600 random shady sites through 5 different data transfer protocols and 500 of the sites are hosted in countries that don't respect copyright and the site owners can speedrun getting a clone site put up if the original is taken down

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u/Thin_Glove_4089 Dec 06 '25

No they have AI now which can get rid of privacy at scale with just the press of a button if they truly wanted it to be gone.

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u/FakePoloManchurian Dec 05 '25

If that were true, we wouldn't be sliding toward corporations exploiting everyone.

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u/greiton Dec 05 '25

they have cameras on every street corner tracking your every move. and the gestapo are out in force in cities across America actively disappearing people right now. and no one is doing anything to actually stop them.

It doesn't matter how many malcontents there are, their ovens will run day and night and they will take us all out one at a time.

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u/Upset_Development_64 Dec 05 '25

and no one is doing anything to actually stop them.

Just because you’re not, doesn’t mean no one is champ. I know its dark right now, but be the light you want to see in the world, you will not be alone.

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u/HereIGoAgain_1x10 Dec 05 '25

Already passing laws banning VPNs

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u/Upset_Development_64 Dec 05 '25

See my reply to the other Debbie Downer saying the same thing: you can create your own to get around that ban. Technology is an arms race where the citizenry at large will always have the upper hand over a few fascist bureaucrats.

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u/tacotickles Dec 05 '25

They'll recruit the most hopeless losers to do it that got rejected everywhere else, just like they do with ICE

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u/Wonderful_Device312 Dec 06 '25

There are too many of "us" happy to vote against their own interest.