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Netflix-Warner Bros. deal faces private US court challenge

( December 8, 2025, 23:31 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: A consumer filed a proposed class action challenging Netflix’s planned acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, calling it one of the more audacious horizontal mergers in recent memory. The complaint claims that the deal would greatly strengthen the “content and subscriber barrier to entry” surrounding the subscription video on demand (SVOD) market, and at the same time would massively increase concentration in an already calcified and oligopolistic market — a market that has responded to past consolidation with aggressive market-wide price hikes and quality degradation.See attached file....

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