Fubo is suing Fox, WB, and Disney to stop all-powerful sports streaming alliance

The reason Fubo is mad about this is that it tried to do this exact thing, creating a one-stop shop for all the sports you could ever want to stream, but in order to get the rights to stream the channels that do sports, it also had to agree to carry “dozens of pricey, non-sports channels.” In other words, it created cable TV but for streaming.

This comes from The Hollywood Reporter, which says Fubo has accused the three companies of using their “iron grip on sports content to extract billions of dollars in supra-competitive profits” while apparently charging Fubo much higher rates to license their networks. Because of this and other actions that allegedly violate antitrust laws, Fubo’s suit says it has had to raise prices and “incurred billions of dollars in damages as a result of the Defendants’ actions.”

THR says Fubo also released a statement saying that these three companies have “consistently engaged in anticompetitive practices that aim to monopolize the market, stifle any form of competition, create higher pricing for subscribers, and cheat consumers from deserved choice.” (These three companies? Allegedly hurting customers in the name of increasing profits? Perish the thought.)

To make matters worse, the unofficial name being tossed around on social media for this proposed Voltron Goliath of sports streaming rights is “Spulu,” which sucks. It sucks shit. It’s awful. If Fubo’s suit doesn’t move past this point and this alliance comes to pass, we really hope that name doesn’t catch on.