Agree OK in Asia but that $6 billion is a waste here, tried to teach my daughter

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...that sport and she's not into it at all  :

Why Disney and Viacom Spent Nearly $6 Billion Fighting Over a Game Most Americans Will Never Watch

Disney just whiffed in the fourth inning of a first-class cricket match. The company lost its effort to retain the streaming portion of its multi-platform rights for the Indian Premier League (IPL), the popular cricket league it carried both linearly and direct-to-consumer since 2019. That news might not resonate if you’re not among the estimated 2.5 billion people worldwide who follow cricket, but here’s why it’s important: On last month’s quarterly earnings call, executives said that 36 percent of the 137.7 million overall Disney+ subscribers were from Disney+ Hotstar, Disney’s Indian streaming service. Of the nearly 8 million subscribers that signed up for Disney+ in the last quarter, “a little over half” were from Disney+ Hotstar, “which benefited from the start of the new IPL season,” Disney CFO Christine McCarthy said on the May 11 call. (Hotstar is also offered in Malaysia, Thailand, and Indonesia.)

Here trying to teach my daughter about Cricket a while back but she didn't want any part of it...typical American.. :