First up, there is the news that HBO has been hacked and someone is trying to blackmail them by threatening to release Game of Thrones episodes ahead of official release. Plus allegedly damning emails. After the Sony "The Interview" hack of 2014 which is rumored to have cost Sony around $100 Million, companies have taken threats like this seriously. Unless the hackers don't actually have what they say they have or think that what they have is more critical than it is (see "Burn After Reading"), as appears to be the case here. HBO is not reported to be negotiating in any serious manner with the cyber thieves.
Secondly, Disney has announced that they are severing ties with Netflix and will be pulling their content from that service in 2019. They intend to set up their own streaming service for their content which may include content from ABC and ESPN, both owned by Disney. Netflix responded by buying a comic book publisher, Millarworld, which is most known for the "Kick-Ass" series.
What do these two news items have in common? Well, they are both about money. They are both about control. And they are both about content piracy. And content piracy is about breaking free of money and control.
