Steimes
I make internets
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join:2002-01-08
Belle Vernon, PA
 ·Verizon Online DSL
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Re: This Must Be Stopped
It would only take one big name ISP to agree to the terms to cause the snowball effect.
Personally I stopped using ESPN's website as Yahoo sports does not auto play a video as soon as the page loads. The auto playing video is just a bout the worst idea since the decline of the terrible MIDI sound on a person's personal webpage from the 90s.
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BF69
join:2004-07-28
Camden, TN
| said by Steimes  :It would only take one big name ISP to agree to the terms to cause the snowball effect. at&t already offers this. So do many others
Personally I stopped using ESPN's website as Yahoo sports does not auto play a video as soon as the page loads. The auto playing video is just a bout the worst idea since the decline of the terrible MIDI sound on a person's personal webpage from the 90s. you can shut the autoplay OFF. |
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darcilicious
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join:2001-01-02
Forest Grove, OR | reply to Steimes
Verizon Internet customers have free access to ESPN 360 currently and have for a while. |
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Lazlow
join:2006-08-07
Saint Louis, MO | darcilicious
Do not kid yourself, you are paying for that access. They just lump it in with the rest of your bill. Which means that many Verizon Internet customers are paying for a service that they will never use. |
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darcilicious
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Forest Grove, OR
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1 edit | said by Lazlow :darcilicious Do not kid yourself, you are paying for that access. They just lump it in with the rest of your bill. Which means that many Verizon Internet customers are paying for a service that they will never use. I never said otherwise. That's why we take advantage of it 
Edit: Er, I guess I did say we have it for "free". Let me put it this way, we're not charged directly for using it unlike say premium channels which explicitly cost more.
Saying we're paying for a service we never use is also like say we're paying for channels we never watch. True, but not really the point given how media services are delivered these days. |
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