HBO starting to think letting people without cable have access to HBO GO might be a good idea
After it was revealed last year that Game Of Thrones is far and away TV's most illegally downloaded series, most analysts came to one of two conclusions: 1) There are people downloading TV shows illegally and the cops are powerless to stop them, therefore we need to invent some sort of "RoboCop;" and 2) HBO should really find a way to make content available to those without premium cable subscriptions, now that viewers are increasingly turning to streaming services instead of overstuffed cable packages. At the time, HBO co-president Eric Kessler scoffed at such responses, characterizing the numbers of cable-free adopters as "minimal" and representative of temporary "macroeconomic" conditions, and not believing any "RoboCop" could ever replace old-fashioned Detroit police street smarts.
But HBO's chief executive Richard Plepler now seems to be coming around on at least one of those: He tells Reuters that the network is considering ...
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