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·Cox HSI
| Doesn't make any sense They have made billions upon billions while not double dipping and extorting content providers. Of course no one with a brain is going to buy their arguments that the status quo means the end of investment.
They can cry and moan until the cows come home but they're aren't going to leave billions on the table because they would rather have even more through double dipping. -- "Our goal (was to make) a billion phones Flash-enabled by 2010...We're actually going to get 1 billion Flash-enabled phones by 2009." -Adobe Chief Technology Officer Kevin Lynch in Nov 2008. |
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 | said by Z80A:They have made billions upon billions while ... extorting content providers. If I read that correctly, you have that reversed. The content providers are doing the extorting and not the access providers. -- Are you happy with your rep in Washington, DC? |
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 Z80APremium join:2009-11-23 | How is google extorting money from the ISPs? How is Hulu or Netflix extorting money from the ISPs?
Subscribers already PAY for their data, regardless of where the data comes from. |
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 Z80APremium join:2009-11-23 | Perhaps he is thinking of broadcasted video content (ABC/ESPN, Fox Sports, etc). |
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 | said by Z80A:Perhaps he is thinking of broadcasted video content (ABC/ESPN, Fox Sports, etc). Yes, that is what I am referring to. -- Are you happy with your rep in Washington, DC? |
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 GbcueAlmost P.E.Premium join:2001-09-30 Santa Rosa, CA kudos:8 Reviews:
·AT&T U-Verse
| reply to fAcEtIOUs said by fAcEtIOUs:said by Z80A:They have made billions upon billions while ... extorting content providers. If I read that correctly, you have that reversed. The content providers are doing the extorting and not the access providers. No, remember when AT&T boss wanted Google to pay for data as well?
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