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 DaMaGeINCThe Lan ManPremium
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Re: I still dont care! Oh and by the way. I steal the internet that I use to steal the 1's and 0's!!! | | |
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| said by DaMaGeINC:Oh and by the way. I steal the internet that I use to steal the 1's and 0's!!! The great thing is there will be more of this guy and less of you cable-tv subscribers in the coming years as cable-tv rates go skyward. What many don't understand is the lack of an evolution of the cable-tv business model into something more choice filled.. and a-la-carte packages is just the start of it.. the RIGHT to consume the programming as 1's and 0's is something from a tech standpoint is still within a massive walled garden. Just because you have 'digital cable-tv' doesn't mean the cable companies want you to "copy" the content and have ease of access to it. The cable companies (and now you can include the telcos in this logic sans qwest) follow the dictates of the entertainment industry who see content as a cash cow which will have to deal with the internet as a real threat to maintaining the status quo (yearly rate hikes, higher set-top rental fees, taxes & surcharges--aka franchise fees,etc, etc). If an evolution of the video industry doesn't bring video content prices down the way VOIP brought telco landline prices down, consumers will flip from one side of the argument to the other, much faster than they would have down the line. The handwriting is on the wall with internet data caps, higher internet pricing, and asymmetric broadband packages.. along with re-aligning of deployment/footprint geographies. No longer is 100% coverage with a fiber optic network or maxed out docsis 3 such an attractive idea to companies who are gouging the consumer for cable-tv serivce as the price of phone service keeps plummeting (unlimited cell phone service for $30-$50/month, and free google voip as examples). The only options left are to gouge cable-tv and then, by proxy internet access in any way they can to make up the lost revenue. Just understand, this is a neat balancing act-- because screw with the consumer too much, and these companies one and all risk losing the consumer altoggether for all 3 services.. or any which they subscribe to.
There is another aspect I wish to touch upon with repect to OWNERSHIP of this so-called content the cable-tv industry is selling/reselling. The fact is that most of this content is now in the hands of fewer and fewer corporate conglomerates. So, therefore we can be assured that what was a novel marvel of time wasting entertainment in the late 1970s which had very affordable rates ballooned into a multi billion dollar industry upon which more and more content becomes "MUST BUY" as opposed to "CONSUMER'S CHOICE" in a "TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT" proposition. Many threads in BBR and elsewhere in the disussion of these issues keep coming back to the conflict of interest between these greedy coporatations and the consumer.
So, to summarize... the more these greedy coporations keep pushing to get their hands on more of YOUR money.. the further consumers become the enemy by hunting & pecking out the specific content they want to watch & taking back control of video in much the way content producers provided it decades ago and at similar cost structure *when the cable-tv industry was new*. When I say consumers are/will be doing this.. you may not consider your self one of these yet.. but down the line.. remember this thread/comment/post... and see where you are when cable-tv basic hits $50, $75, then $100+ for BASIC CHANNEL LINEUP as your total bottom line price (including all fees). | |
| You know, if you don't like the status quo, you can always go ahead and form your own production company and make your own content.
Content costs money for a reason, and that reason is that it is expensive to produce, and the costs keep going up. In this economy a lot of content producers are making less money and some are operating at a loss or break even. It's a gamble, especially when people freely share your content without paying you for it. So they look to leverage their agreements to make up for the shortfall.
The alternative, of course, is a lot worse - these companies could go out of business or lay off employees putting many people out on the street. You think that the entertainment/TV/film/music industry is only the big actors, movie stars and wealthy executives... dead wrong. There are many, many, many regular folks - working class, middle class and even lower income folks working in the industry making an honest living, not to mention all of the support industries - catering, location and equipment rentals, porta-potty rentals etc.
A feature film or TV episode has hundreds of people working on it, and if you add up all the people who stand to gain from it it is easily in the thousands. In contrast a guy making videos for break.com or youtube just has maybe one or two guys and a cheap video camera. One is a profession, the other is a hobby. NO comparison between the two. | |
DaMaGeINCThe Lan ManPremium
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Thank you! | |
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