Comcast Seeking Control of Both Pipes and Content?

techmuse writes "Reuters reports that Comcast may be attempting to use its huge cash reserves to purchase a large media content provider, such as Disney, Viacom, or Time Warner. This would result in Comcast controlling both the delivery mechanism for content, and the content itself. Potentially, it could limit access to content it owns to subscribers to its own services, thus shutting out competing services (where they still exist at all)."

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Re:Hah! Their timing couldn't be better

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While Obama made some overly optimistic promises it's pretty clear that congress and political fear mongering are limiting factors. Obama is not a genie. He has no magic wand.

Sadly, the average Obama lemming-uhhh-supporter doesn't realize that, so they voted for Obama based on his promises.

This is based on my own polling[1] of Massachusetts residents who voted for Obama.

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[1] Of course, polls being what they are, you should probably take this with a grain or two of salt.