M76
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Yeah, some of us lack a backbone.Speak for yourself. Not all of us lack morals.
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Yeah, some of us lack a backbone.Speak for yourself. Not all of us lack morals.
Oh the great scam that is broadcast fees... so OTA stations broadcast for free, cable companies want to rebroadcast local channels and the OTA channels fry foul because potential commercial revenue they're losing out on because cable can put their commercials into the broadcast and make money from that, government steps in requires cable to pay fee to OTA channels for the rebroadcast rights, ok sounds reasonable (and for sake of argument let's ignore the large companies that overlap ownership).It looks reasonable until the bill comes and the taxes and broadcasting fees .
Corporate executives and shareholders want their piece of the pie. And they have paid off congress to get it. So we're screwed. We pay either way.only care about 2 channels, can't see paying 50/mo for them...
Oh, they'll give that to you, but it will be $10 a month per channel. For lousy channels. Premium, same as it is now.We should be at the stage where you´re able to pick which channels you want for say a buck a month each.
And it would very soon cost just as much as cable does now.I swear if TIVO was smart they would work to get their own integrated internet TV service with thier guide and one pass abilites??
They just raise prices or decrease what they pay the content providers. Usually some combination of both. Which is why periodically, we get blacked out sports channels while they dicker with each other over what they have to pay, and what garbage channels they have to carry. They they claim '200 channels' of which 160 are garbage that they have to carry in order to get the ones that customers want.This is correct. The way I think this goes is that the heads of these various companies seek to maintain their same margins even though a massive hole has been blown in their business models, via piracy
They don't care, they're going to charge whatever it takes to make the amount of money they want. Corporations have never been about being fair. It's always been about squeezing the maximum amount of money out of the customer before they quit buying the product. Then back it down just enough to get the customer back. Today, that's changed, as the corporate executives now figure out ways to insure that the customer cannot legally avoid buying the product. Witness the automotive insurance industry. You HAVE to buy it. Or walk. They gotcha.. Piracy exposes the real costs associated with distribution... and they are far less than what should be ordinarily charged
They just pay off more legislators.these prices are held up by price fixing/cartels at various points in the logistical/supply chain. They are entirely too accustomed to living on the easy money gravy train and when their gravy train is threatened they lash out like spoiled children.
Probably gone forever. The days of the government siding with the consumer are long gone. Legislators are all beholden to the rich and the corporations, because they are the ones who pay for the campaigns to get elected. Politicians are generally all crooked. Democrats, republicans, all of them. All we can do is try to choose the lesser of two evils. Sometimes both are so evil, we're screwed no matter what we do.Additionally, with no coherent anti-trust enforcement
Not going to happen. After Microsoft got away with a slap on the wrist, big business has enjoyed a party of mergers.A large number of companies in the US simply need to be broken up
The system won't collapse. They will carefully take every cent they can, leaving us just enough to prevent a revolution.1) Systemic collapse
2) Perpetual dystopian hell hole where corporate cartels get to dictate the terms to their "customers" (i.e. the corporate overlord scenario) a.k.a. Government, Inc.
3) A combination of the above two
Just my $0.02
Youku? There's a lot of American copyrighted content on there, but you have to be able to navigate in some sort of Asian language to find it easily.We have cheap crap from China, though.
It's not that we lack morals, we have morals which say that we refuse to be cheated just because it's legal to cheat us. We know that corporations and their executives and stockholders have zero morals, so why should we be more fair to them than they are to us? Business only holds to one concept, and it's now this: 'There's a sucker born every minute, and two to take him'.Speak for yourself. Not all of us lack morals.
Not everyone has that option.And that is why you use an ISP that doesn't have a data cap
So far, I've been calling with the disconnect and if they don't give me a better offer from the customer retention dept, I go ahead and disconnect and then just put up with a week or so of watching stuff on my phone while the new service is hooked up. I don't know if that will work for you, but it's worth a try.I switch back and forth pretty much every year because I get a deal for a year and then the company I am with raises the price because the deal is up. Then when I call them to say I am switching because I can get service for whatever the other company is offering, they pretty much blow me off until I call to disconnect which is right after the other company has hooked up their service.
I belive the point is to have a single interface for all services. You don't have to subscribe to every service.I swear if TIVO was smart they would work to get their own integrated internet TV service with thier guide and one pass abilites?
And it would very soon cost just as much as cable does now.
It's not that we lack morals, we have morals which say that we refuse to be cheated just because it's legal to cheat us. We know that corporations and their executives and stockholders have zero morals, so why should we be more fair to them than they are to us? Business only holds to one concept, and it's now this: 'There's a sucker born every minute, and two to take him'.
We basically are. One provider offers their 'triple play', which is $89 for base internet, Then they will give you basic cable for $10 and a landline 'for free'....for a year, then it goes up to $129.I belive the point is to have a single interface for all services. You don't have to subscribe to every service.