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.

  • KalashEnglish
    5•11 months ago

    You can use a VPN to get around regional blocks like that.

      • KalashEnglish
        2•11 months ago

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

        • @phx@lemmy.caEnglish
          1•11 months ago

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

        • SRoEnglish
          1•11 months 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.

          • KalashEnglish
            1•11 months ago

            It’s not just America, but all the anglosphere and the entire EU, too.

    • @CmdrShepard@lemmy.oneEnglish
      3•11 months ago

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