So the thread about the UK government demanding that ISPs block Premiere League
football games if they connect to a Kodi set top box, stimulated responses from
several list members.
Bert was troubled that ISPs are being asked to block these streams. Frankly,
I'm not sure why this was necessary. One would think that the company(s)
operating the Premiere League servers could refuse to connect to the Kodi
boxes...
After all, this is not unprecedented.
Remember all of the U.S. content congloms that blocked Google TV?
How about Amazon and others that are - to borrow a phrase from Bert -
"colluding" with the content owners, to refuse delivery of their service to
Apple TV and other platforms?
Bert struggles to differentiate between "net neutrality" violations and the
operation of "walled garden" services that use the Internet to deliver their
bits.
What's new here?
And what is wrong with protecting a paid service from piracy?
Regards
Craig
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