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4 edits | Get the facts straight Gee, how nice it is to come home after a long, hard 12 hour workday (7 AM to 7 PM) doing service upgrades, building out high speed Internet to unserved areas, and helping Internet users... to find myself libeled, my views misrepresented, and even the name of my company misspelled. (Hint: It's "Lariat" -- from the Spanish "la riata", meaning "the rope" -- not "lariet.")
To clarify my views (and, Karl, you should correct this in your article above): I believe that market forces can resolve most issues in the marketplace, and that regulation is only necessary in cases of market failure or anticompetitive practices. Unnecessary regulation causes more problems than it solves -- leading to regulatory capture, deterring investment, and stifling innovation.
On the other hand, what ESPN360 is doing -- telling Internet customers to terminate their contracts with ISPs which do not pay it "ransom" -- is not a regulatory issue. Rather, it is what is known as tortious interference. Anyone who understands business law understands that this is a tort in common law and also (just about everywhere) in statutory law. Whether or not there is regulation, anyone has the right to sue if someone else does malicious damage to them or tries to shake them down for money, as ESPN360 is doing in this case. This is true in any line of business.
Both consumers and ISPs should protest what ESPN360 is doing, boycott it, and perhaps engage in a class action against it.
But of course, we couldn't expect Karl to understand these subtleties. | | |
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| I know this won't help matters much, but as far as small ISPs go Brett, you should seriously give this up. One of the smallest ISPs in Ohio provides this to their customers: »www.wabash.com/ . They also own and just built a FTTH network. If they can do it, you surely can.
And class action against ESPSN/Disney? LMAO! Good Luck. It's not their fault that you won't sign with them. | |
2 edits | They're not providing anything to their customers; they are paying ransom. Good luck to them. They are destroying their business. They've capitulated to one bully; now the next one will come, and the next. There will be no end to it, and they won't be profitable or sustainable. It'll be bad news for their community and their customers.
If there's no class action against ESPN360, there will be after a few more bullies arrive on the block. | |
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