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Kalman posted:
And that presents its own  of potential issues, between Congressional deadlock and the fact that 'designing it to deal with the unique issues ISPs face' could encompass just about anything from an entire spectrum of possible outcomes ranging from 'pretty good' to 'Comcast and FBI jointly impose dystopian hellscape, consumers get fisted'.The outcome we look to be getting isn't necessarily the best but it could very easily have been much, much, much worse. Not that there's really anything stopping congress from getting involved too, but, with the issue tentatively addressed for the time being it's not something that's likely to get reopened again until something actually happens. hailthefish fucked around with this message at 23:41 on Feb 27, 2015 |
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The pessimist in me is picturing this happening and the price of netflix increasing by 10000% as they start paying to carry broadcast TV but get forbidden from offering a la carte TV channel options.
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Mar 8, 2015 01:59
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computer parts posted:It could be mitigated somewhat if they consolidate some channels. You don't have 3 different Discovery Channels worth of material, but if you combined them all you might have a pretty popular channel, and then you don't need to rely on reality stuff. But then instead of having 72 hours a day of advertising slots to sell, they only have 24, and we can't have that!
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Mar 8, 2015 19:26
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And my point is TV channels, like most businesses, blindly pursue what looks like a bigger immediate profit, even if the end result is less money.
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Mar 8, 2015 23:33
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