Welcome to the Tech Meme Ride Home for Friday, December 4th, 2020.

I'm Brian McCullough today.

Another monumental crack across the land as Warner Brothers has maybe

signaled the death of the business model Hollywood has relied on for a hundred

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Here's what you missed today in the world of tech.

All right, it's official.

This is Hollywood's Napster moment. Not in the sense that suddenly piracy or something is bankrupting the industry, but in the very real sense of movies and TV are taking the leap and taking their business models digital.

Warner Brothers announced that it will release every single movie on its 2021 slate

simultaneously in theaters and on HBO Max at least in the US.

The first run films will stream there for one month before being taken down again for a period

of time while still remaining in theaters, quoting Julia Alexander in The

Virge. The plan is to run this experiment for one year. For people who don't have

access to HBO Max in their market it appears that theatrical releases will still be the go-to option.

The movies Warner Brothers is planning to release for now include the little things, Judas

and the Black Messiah, Tom and Jerry, Godzilla versus Kong, mortal combat, those who wish me dead, the

conjuring, the devil made me do it, in the Heights, space jam a new legacy, the suicide

squad, reminiscence, malignant, dune, the many The Many the Sincets of New York,

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