Warner Bros. Discovery is feeling the effects of the Max merge.

HBO Max was renamed Max, and Warner Bros. Discovery lost subscribers::Warner Bros. Discovery lost 1.8 million subscribers in the second quarter of 2023 following HBO Max’s rebrand to Max. The company now has 95.8 million subscribers across all of its services.

  • emax_gomax@lemmy.worldEnglish
    15·
    1 year ago

    I want to pay for max so I can watch warrior season 3 and let their BS algorithm know there’s interest in it and not cancel it outright. They don’t even allow subscribers from my country UK so I have no choice but to pirate. They also have not released the season 2 bluray yet and I’m not gonna get the season 1 one if I’m just gonna end up with an incomplete collection cause this company is just allergic to taking my money.

        • Kalash@lemmy.worldEnglish
          31·
          1 year ago

          The alternative is pirating (which I’m all for), which also should be done through a vpn anyway.

          • phx@lemmy.caEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            You’d need to find somewhere that doesn’t depend on ratios. Not many VPN providers support seeding ports these days

          • SRo@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            Many (most? It’s just north America I guess) countries don’t give a shit about piracy and would never allow an ISP to give out ips and personal information to companies so they could sue. So, depending where you live, no VPN needed.

      • CmdrShepard@lemmy.oneEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        Sometimes. Many of their IP ranges are blocked on streaming services because they know people are using them to get around regional blocks.