jfmezei
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| Cable may make itself redundant
I think people are missing the point here.
Cable TV may make itself totally redundant. If they force you to buy a whole bundle of channels you don't want, only to watch a couple of programmes per week on the one channel you do want, people will end up downloading those programmes from the internet.
Say I want to watch program X on channel A. If they force me to pay $5.00 for a bundle of channels A.B.C.D , I'd rather send the $5.00 directly to the producers of the show instead of distributing the revenu to 4 channels, 3 of whcih i woudl never watch.
And then there are cases where I don't want to send money to a channel. For instance, when CNN stopped being a news channel and became the Bush Propaganda Network and has since morphed into an entertainment network where ratings are more important than news, I stopped watching it. But my bundle of news channels still includes CNN, and this means part fo my money still goes to CNN and I would really want to be able to send a strong signal to that network by ensuring none of my money goes to them. |
