This does not look like it’ll end up well for the consumer… can we please get some company busting going on in this current capitalistic hellscape?

Something something monopoly

Something something your government should do something about it but it doesn't because it's controlled by big corpos

Ahoy.

I'm back to where I started, 100% 🏴‍☠️. I tried to play nice for about 3 years only to get fucked about every year. No more.

Maybe they’ll roll Hulu’s content into Disney+ without raising prices.

Without raising prices, right?

Would this be a potential push to form a monopoly?

They've won the game at that point. Only Paramount and Netflix will be the holdouts, and this all just turns into another $100/mo package like cable.

I remember back in 2008 it was free and that's how I watched all of Veronica Mars

RIP Orville

I've been looking into setting up a home server with Jellyfin and qBittorrent, so this just makes me feel better about that decision

I can upgrade my internet to gigabit and get rid of my two streaming services and save money. Win win, imo

In the uk Hulu stuff is already on Disney+ as "Star". I imagine they want that in the US as well since it gives a lot of value to Disney+. I think it's better however... Monopolies and all that.

Do what you want cuz a pirate is free.

The FTC, "But Market consultation is great for the consumer, right?"

Neat. I cancelled Hulu a few months ago, and this doesn’t make me regret my decision. I like some Disney content, but they’re corporate vultures and, based on their practices, they don’t deserve any loyalty.

And Comcast, of course, can fuck themselves to death. I wish this wasn’t an amicable takeover and Comcast would lose badly, but that’s just my murderous mouse fanfic.

All I know is Charlie Brown Holiday cartoons are behind a pay way now

I'm wondering how this will affect Spotify, because back when I paid for Spotify it came bundled with Hulu.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

The entertainment giant announced Wednesday that it “expects it will pay” $8.61 billion to acquire Comcast’s 33 percent stake, giving Disney full ownership of Hulu.

Both Disney and Comcast agreed to an appraisal process that will evaluate Hulu’s equity fair value as of September 30th.

The deal was initially set to take place in 2024, but Comcast and Disney agreed to move the date to September 30th.

“That was just a hypothetical that we picked five years ago,” said Comcast CEO Brian Roberts during an investors conference in September.

With Hulu barely seeing a shift in subscribers last quarter, Disney announced a price hike across all of its streaming services and hinted at a password-sharing crackdown.

Disclosure: Comcast’s NBCU division is a minority investor in Vox Media, The Verge’s parent company.

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