Re:New Anti-Piracy System to Hit U.S. Internet Users on Monday
by api on Sunday February 24, 2013 @03:59PM
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The game is protecting cable TV from total disruption by the Internet. Cable is the big cash cow. That's also why there's such a powerful, almost jihad-like effort to keep sports off the net. A lot of sports fans have cable to watch the game.
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Re:New Anti-Piracy System to Hit U.S. Internet Users on Monday
by NoPiece on Sunday February 24, 2013 @04:33PM
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Right, and it is not just the cable companies that are fighting the disruption. Television networks are now getting a major chunk of their income from cable companies by increasing the carry and retransmission fees. This revenue source has become much more important as ad revenue has declined. So a healthy cable company business is in their interest of the big media companies as well.
http://www.fiercecable.com/story/news-corp-reports-100-incre...
Re:New Anti-Piracy System to Hit U.S. Internet Users on Monday
by digitalengineer on Monday February 25, 2013 @03:26AM
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Sports is the only thing right now that does not fear piracy. After all, there isn't much value in a day-old game. It needs to be a live broadcast. Torrents, newsgroups are always "yesterday news" to real sports fans.