docufo wrote:
> If this FCC ruling stands, it will mean telecom CEOs have the legal
> right to charge customers for access to individual "streamers" such as
> Netflix and Amazon.
>
> It will likely raise telecom bills substantially, but not necessarily
> immediately. Yet, I'd not be surprised if several companies quickly take
> advantage of Donald's Xmas gift to the elite.
Short term: Rate SPIKES!
Medium to long term: Google and a handful of others
would be poised to take over the internet AND what is
left of the cable market.
Look. Comcast is big, but it got big by ass raping
people mercilessly. Everyone hates Comcast. The
company itself spent YEARS and tens of millions of
dollars investing in being hated.
Literally.
I know that every week, for years on end, we'd
receive offers in the mail from Comcast -- service
deals at incredibly low prices. And like everyone
else in my neighborhood the offers were never open
to us. See, Comcast was the one & only cable company
for a while.
Originally, cable was awarded as a monopoly by each
community, separately. "A" company would get the
contract to provide cable TV. And Comcast bought out
the company that bought out the company that had
bought out that monopoly. So pretty much everyone and
anyone who wanted cable had Comcast. THEY HAD NO
CHOICE! And then...
And then the market opened up, competitors moved in
and Comcast flooded us with this awesome offers
targeting the other guy's customers, but by default
everyone was theirs!
Comcast did this all over the country: Direct
mailing, TV ads & Sunday newspaper inserts convincing
all their customers that they were paying WAY too
much at Comcast...
So we all hate Comcast anyway. They suck. And now
they're campaigning aggressively to fuck us over even
harder. And that's great. But in the end we'd rather
have Netflix than Comcast.
Honest.
And pretty soon Backbones like Google are going to
step in and sell us what we want -- just the bandwidth,
not the stale sitcoms & infomercials -- and none of
us will have any use for Comcast ever again.
And Comcast is fighting for this to happen. And it
will happen.
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