[opendtv] Re: UK ISPs to block set-top boxes that illegally live-stream soccer matches
- From: Craig Birkmaier <brewmastercraig@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2017 10:18:25 -0400
On Mar 16, 2017, at 10:41 PM, Manfredi, Albert E <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Craig, that's double-talk. The congloms wouldn't command the big bucks, in
ads and in subscriber fees, if their content wasn't at least as much in
demand as the next guy's content.
No Bert, it is reality.
When oligopolies use their monopoly pricing power they ALL win.
This chart says volumes:
Advertising is still important, and advertisers continue to pay every
increasing CPMs for live audiences. But subscriber fees make it possible for
them to pay billions to lock up the most popular content.
It's true that in your warped MVPD environment, which are in effect local
monopolies, where switching providers requires an act of Congress, the
congloms can and do collude.
Switching providers is EASY Bert. They will even pay you to switch with highly
discounted bundles for the first year. The content congloms win no matter how
you watch TV.
But in the new Internet TV environment, this collusion is far less
successful. Again, we've been around this circle many times. Yet, even John
Skipper explained this. So give it up.
The collusion is the same Bert. To date we still have no viable Virtual MVPD
service, but this is likely to change dramatically this year.
You have at least four facilities based choices for MVPD
Surely, even you must notice by now how many times we have been around this
circle, right?
Right. So why do you keep telling us that you only have one monopoly choice?
And why does it even matter since you choose NOT to pay.
The reality is that the distribution side is another oligopoly that collides
with the content oligopoly so both are able to realize monopoly pricing.
Regards
Craig
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