Their major shareholders try to force HBO to do things that are neither healthy for the US population, HBO's viewers, and also sometimes not even their shareholders.
Example: Sure, HBO Go, right? iOS, Android, etc etc... but until recently, only if you already had HBO service from a participating cable or sat company. Time Warner, the second largest cable company in the US, decided to not participate.
After much fighting with shareholders, rightsholders, and other forms of dickholders, they finally can sell you HBO Go service without requiring you to be an HBO customer (ie, finally you can have HBO and be a cordcutter; it is now 2015).
All of that said: court orders about technology rarely make sense in any terms that are meaningful to people like us, the people who actually understand how the technology works.
What I don't like about this entire thing is they are trying to go after major WiFi hotspot providers (ie, the companies that do it for the Starbuckses and McDondaldses that don't do it in house) instead of using the powers already granted to them by Congress; or powers they already abuse such as just stealing domains from major torrent and restreamer sites.
Honestly, this is why I support an Internet that everything is SSL secured to help APs from being attacked by a legal system that is simply outpaced by the speed of the evolution of technology; and don't get me wrong, I'm not blaming the government, some of this technology really is difficult to understand, and I don't expect them to understand it no more than I expect to understand how to build a house, do brain surgery, or perform complex choreographed dance moves.