HBO needs to carefully walk this line. The record companies lost this battle with the same arguements. Optomitrists are losing with the same arguments. Protecting outdated distribution systems by restricting content has not been an effective long term solution.
If HBO doesnt have a trulpely epic show (they are down to jus GoT) people are going to start watching netflix originals which are quite good before the good but not great HBO shows. HBO has significant competition now from AMC, Netflix, Showtime, etc so the enviroment is becoming much more difficult.
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