HBO Finally Makes The "Take My Money" Creator Pay Up

To promote its new streaming service, HBO made a trailer starring the guy behind the Take My Money, HBO site and some other famous faces.

In 2012, when Jake Caputo created the website Take My Money, HBO, begging the cable network to launch a streaming service that would allow fans to fork over their money in exchange for easy, Internet access to HBO, the company paid little attention. Although the site attracted 163,673 people within the first 24 hours, Caputo says "HBO never contacted me. They sent out a tweet like a few days after the whole thing. It said something along the lines of, 'Love the love for HBO, but nothing is imminent.'"

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