Netflix has locked WB into a due diligence and anti trust cycle for the next 2 years which effectively eliminates them as a Netflix competitor that could strategically shift and threaten them as you can’t do much when in a DD cycle for an acquisition.
It also takes away the possibility of Google buying them
When the sale is ruled anti competitive in a few years Netflix will have accomplished exactly what they wanted.
And if somehow the sale actually goes through Netflix gets to consultation prize of a bigger library
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