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kleinbl00  ·  3570 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, Tobacco

...and Youtube. HBO has an interesting take on sharing; "We get paid by your local cable affiliate whether you steal it or not so... rawk on."

    “Basically, we’ve been dealing with this issue for years with HBO, literally 20, 30 years, where people have always been running wires down on the back of apartment buildings and sharing with their neighbors,” he said. “Our experience is, it all leads to more penetration, more paying subs, more health for HBO, less reliance on having to do paid advertising… If you go around the world, I think you’re right, Game of Thrones is the most pirated show in the world. Well, you know, that’s better than an Emmy.”

Jeff Bewkes, CEO of HBO