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Suit Seeks 'A La Carte' TV Channel Choices
An anonymous reader writes "A breathtaking lawsuit was filed this week against every major player in the 'for-pay' television industry. Every major broadband and cable company in the US was named in the federal suit, which seeks the right to obtain content piecemeal rather than in the large (and expensive) packages that cable companies offer as the only option right now. This follows closely on the heels of encouraging comments from the FCC chair that he supports this kind of service. 'The complex web of contractual arrangements among service providers and networks amounts to a monopoly or cartel that has "deprived consumers of choice, caused them to pay inflated prices for cable television and forced them to pay for cable channels they do not want and do not watch," [antitrust lawyer Maxwell M. Blecher] wrote in the complaint filed on behalf of cable subscribers in several states. The complaint, which alleges a conspiracy to monopolize as well as violations of federal antitrust laws, names nine plaintiffs, but Blecher wants the U.S. District Court to certify it as a class action.'"
My inner geek is gonna miss programming my remote. My Harmony and I have had a long love affair skipping useless channels like HVC, Fox News, and Disney. I'm gonna miss her.
But, how else am I going to enjoy my guilty pleasure of E! without the cover of subscribing to the "extended lineup"?
It's the cable equivalent of walking up to the rental counter with Super Slut Cum Fest #9 sandwiched between Howard the Duck and Sleepless in Seattle.
More Twoson than Cupertino
You want to demand that a company offers to sell you a product in a way it doesn't want to sell. We should demand that record stores be required to sell the CD only with no case or liner notes for less! We should demand that McDonalds sell you the burger without the bun for less! We should demand that car companies sell the car without the rear seats for less! We should demand that pasta sauce companies sell the sauce without the garlic for less!
Seriously. Why do you want to legislate that private corporations sell something they don't want to?
The masses are the crack whores of religion.
I swear I heard horses twice when I read the blurb. Something about that lawyer's name... Hmmm.
You're on the wrong website.
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Personally I belong to that elite "Telemundo-Fox-HSN-Oxygen" viewer demographic.
It is by the juice of the coffee bean that thoughts acquire speed, the teeth acquire stains. The stains become a warning
I'd love to ditch CNN. I only read their website nowadays. That network is 99.9% talking heads endlessly pontificating or theorizing. "Well Bob, IF they had planted a bomb here it would've blown up the world. Senator, do you have a world destruction prevention plan? We have a report that it MIGHT have been painted blue, more on that later. What, we still have 28 minutes to kill? Shit..."
It is by the juice of the coffee bean that thoughts acquire speed, the teeth acquire stains. The stains become a warning
Weird, my store only sells them in prime numbers.
Vote monkeys into Congress. They are cheaper and more trustworthy.