Stand-alone streaming could doom pricey bundling once and for all
                                
                                
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                                    HBO's announcement that it will launch some of type of  stand-alone streaming service  next year means that "cable companies should be very, very afraid," writes Issie Lapowsky at  Wired . It's a sentiment widely shared out there, with Brian Merchant at  Vice  chiming in, "From where...