I know many people love HBO, but it would be nice to see some other alternative arise to this entity owned by the AT&T beast.

On October 22, 2016, AT&T announced an offer to acquire Time Warner for $108.7 billion (including assumed Time Warner debt). The proposed merger was confirmed on June 12, 2018,after AT&T won an antitrust lawsuit that the U.S. Justice Department filed in 2017 to attempt to block the acquisition.[9] The merger closed two days later, with the company becoming a subsidiary of AT&T. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WarnerMedia)

Example EFF suit against ATT: https://www.eff.org/document/scott-v-att-geolocation-complaint

EFF is now suing AT&T for selling this data without users’ consent and for misleading the public about its privacy practices

In the current state no streaming service will ever not have DRM so this isn’t surprising really. The good thing is a VPN is cheaper than their prices.

You shouldn’t use streaming services anyways just find a private tracker and you’re good, you don’t have to rent a seedbox as well.