 Morac
join:2001-08-30
Riverside, NJ
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| reply to swintec
Re: Stupid TiVo Read this article, it explains things better than I can. Basically put though, you wouldn't allow your cable company to force you to rent a computer from them to access the Internet or only allow you to surf with a cable company approved web browser so why should TV be any different (it runs over the same wires)?
The main difference between cable companies and other businesses is that pretty much every cable company started out as a legal monopoly. This was changed in 1996 by the Telecommunications Act of 1996, which was designed to promote competition in exchange for removing the regulation of cable prices, but until very recently it basically worked in reverse with a lot of small monopolistic cable companies being bought out by larger ones. Most of the remaining cable companies are de facto monopolies. Monopolies are generally not good for consumers.
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