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		david_shaw on June 6, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Take my money, HBO > I will continue to pay $0 until there is an option that does not involve enriching evil cable executives. Wouldn't a standalone HBO GO subscription enrich cable executives? Wouldn't any paid solution enrich cable executives?

randomdata on June 6, 2012 [–]

Profit isn't inherently evil, so I assume by his comment that the "evil cable executives" would cease to be evil if they offered a product considered reasonable by him.

philwelch on June 6, 2012 | [–]

Aside from the "Time Warner owns HBO" issue, it makes sense to distinguish content producers like HBO from, say, Comcast (who are far more evil).

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