Warner Bros. Discovery sues Paramount over 'South Park' streaming rights
Paramount Global for allegedly breaching parts of the $500 million contract that gave HBO Max streaming rights forin 2019. WBD claims Paramount"blatantly intended" to steer users toward its service by not only offering new specials, but by shortchanging the HBO service on promised regular season content.
HBO Max was reportedly promised three new seasons with 10 episodes each. However, the provider says it only got eight episodes across the two delivered seasons, and that the next season's six episodes also fall short. On top of this, Paramount supposedly used"verbal trickery" to rebrand content as movies or events to avoid sending video to its competitor.
In a statement to Engadget, Paramount claims the lawsuit is"without merit." It also maintains that it's still honoring the contract despite Warner supposedly failing to pay licensing fees for already-deliveredTurn on browser notifications to receive breaking news alerts from Engadget
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