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FuboTV has reportedly filed an antitrust lawsuit against Disney, Fox, and Warner Bros. Discovery to block their sports streaming deal.
When you’re as big as the Walt Disney Company, it seems like lawsuits are one of the most common occurrences in your everyday. At least, that’s what it seems like to this writer, considering the Mouse House is dealing with yet another lawsuit, this time from FuboTV.
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FuboTV Files Lawsuit Against Disney, Fox, Warner Bros. Discovery’s New Sports Streaming Venture
According to a report from Money Control, sports streaming service FuboTV has filed an antitrust lawsuit attempting to block the Walt Disney Company, Fox, and Warner Bros. Discovery from banding together to form their new sports streaming platform.
According to a statement that Fubo shared, the companies have been working for years together, engaging in “anti-competitive practices” to block Fubo’s growth.
”This is the straw that broke the camel’s back,” Fubo co-founder and CEO David Gandler told Reuters. ”We tried to be rational and polite. That time is over.”
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“By combining to license their must-have sports content on a standalone basis to their own joint venture, other distributors, including Fubo, would be at an extreme competitive disadvantage to the detriment of millions of U.S. consumers,” Fubo’s complaint reads.
Money Control also reported, “Fubo claims that the media companies have engaged in ‘a long-running pattern of styming’ its service by engaging in alleged ”unfair bundling,” or forcing it to carry dozens of non-sports channels, as a condition of licensing.”
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Disney, Fox, and Warner Bros. partnership will bring together streaming rights to the National Football League, the National Basketball Association, Major League Baseball, the FIFA World Cup, and college competitions, making this sports streaming service one-of-a-kind.
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