Disney+ has launched several weeks ahead of schedule in India through Hotstar, the local video-streaming service that Disney acquired via its purchase of Fox last year, TechCrunch reported. Hotstar launched in India in 2014 and is the country’s leading online streaming service with an estimated 7.5 million paid subscribers, many of whom pay less than $1 a month. The service, which has lots of...
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