[opendtv] Re: UK ISPs to block set-top boxes that illegally live-stream soccer matches
- From: "Manfredi, Albert E" <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2017 02:04:16 +0000
Craig Birkmaier wrote:
The Internet created a whole new category of potential customers
like Netflix, AND the potential to either augment or bypass the
existing facilities based MVPDs.
Everyone knows this, Craig. Why are you belaboring the obvious?
Nonsense! Slimmer bundles would never have happened, EXCEPT FOR
competition from OTT sites (meaning, competition from the neutral
Internet).
Perhaps we are saying the same thing?
Perhaps, if you're changing your tune now. I've been saying that competition is
the only thing that keeps prices under control. You've been saying that the
content owners would never let their high value content outside your "the
bundle," so that prices would always stay high.
As far as I can tell, Craig, you were championing the cause of "a la carte"
program offerings at a time when the conditions were entirely against it.
Because the neutral Internet was not yet a viable TV content distribution
medium, so there was no earthly reason for MVPD operators to do what you wanted.
So in your usual contrarian way, now that there is a neutral and competitive
medium, for carriage of TV content, now you refuse to see how the content
owners are changing their business models. Now you feel compelled to believe
that nothing has changed, that the same "bundles" have merely moved to the
Internet.
No need for "oligopoly" or "politician" conspiracy theories to explain any of
this, Craig. But I'm heartened that maybe you're changing your story.
Bert
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