Special Dispatch: Mad Max

This Bird Has Phone; Phone Men Don't Cry; Phone Justice

Well, they did it. They really did it.

Way back in April when I suggested that this moment of disruption would give the companies license to renegotiate the window permanently, I was called a hysteric, a madman (charges I won't deny).

Yet here we are. A big, wild move, wrapped in a catastrophic streaming launch swaddled in a flailing old economy conglomer…