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Re: UM, WAIT, NO! You just don't get it, do you?
The entitlement mentality, and I'm sorry, but you are acting that way as is just about every bitcher here is,... is that Comcast is offering another added service and yet it's not good enough for them.. If they never offered it, we'd not be here having a conversation about it right? That's factually correct.
I see NOTHING wrong is a CABLE **TV** provider trying to push their service beyond the boob-toob.. afterall, isn't this what people want? .. and yet they bitch?
"CableTV Paywall" huh? (nice term by the way - I bet you hope it sticks?) They're allowing people who are their SUBSCRIBERS to be able to get content through the web. I don't see a problem with this.. afterall, other providers, non cable or satellite, is already doing this.. why is it a bad thing when Cable does it?
"Content creators"... so we get to the bottom line here.. what you're saying, to me as I take it, is that the "content creators" are those that post to you tube? is that it? Or are you talking about hollywood? If it's the youtube non-hollywood crowd well they already have a forum for that.. only the youtubes of the world still censor content worse than the cable companies and networks do. If it's Hollywood creators you're talking about, if they put their content out on the net, which is what comcast is doing, well.. we're in the same destination already with what Comcast is trying to do.
Comcast, at hand, is simply trying to allow THEIR CURRENT VIDEO CUSTOMERS access to content through the web.. big deal.. it's the end of the world. 
What I hear in this forum are people who aren't comcast customers bitching that they can't get the content, or that they'd have to "pay" for it (oh my F'ing god.. the evil money word again) ... and those people that aren't comcast customers really don't have a need to be in this discussion in the first place since this isn't going to apply to them.
And one last thing - again, you're not getting it. You said "The Internet has been putting content creators directly in touch with viewers, and viewers pay for that service through their ISP subscriptions." .... Really? So you're saying the money people pay for their internet is what allows them access to the content?? First off, you really need to define "content creators" for one.. and two, content and connectivity are two totally different things. Content providers, of ANY flavor, have, and do, charge for content when they feel they want the money.. and if not, it's got ads for revenue.. oh know.. !! I just said "ads".. the very thing that many people feel are evil and should go away..
One simple question.. if no one wants to pay directly for things (and we're not talking the internet line itself) they get from the web, and they don't want ads... just how in the world is content, that you all want so bad, supposed to be paid for or funded? It TAKES MONEY TO MAKE THE WORLD GO AROUND.. we're not living in Startrek times where the world just seems to happen..
TV Everywhere is not doing anything that you THINK it is.. I absolutely just can't see where you're coming to these conclusions you are. |
