Comments on: Comcast: All your media are belong to us. Your internets and your politics, too.

By: MegaCorps: 1 Consumers: 0

MegaCorps: 1 Consumers: 0 — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 19:41:52 +0000

[...] Don’t say you weren’t warned. 7 years of net neutrality commitment is a small price to pay when you will own the content, the copyrights, the pipes, the ticket sales, and the content producers. They’ll have it all. [...]

By: louisvaira

louisvaira — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 19:48:36 +0000

If Comcast acquires NBC and implements this “right” network to come on-line then I am dropping ALL of my cabbe and internet services with them. I think the media is being blasted with all the repugs shows on now, let alone start more. Enough is enough so go ahead Comcast, I already have 9 households with me and I will work to expand people dropping Comcast if this happens.

By: Wes

Wes — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 05:04:53 +0000

Sundance shouldn't be listed, NBC and CBS sold its stakes in that network in 2008 to Rainbow Media (Cablevision) — along with it, they own AMC and IFC.

By: Jack Wade

Jack Wade — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 21:44:47 +0000

We all remember the good old days when the phone company wielded almost dicatatorial power and you coudn't even install your own phone without Ma Bell threatening to sue you. The NBC sale to Comcast is just the media equivalent of the old Ma Bell monopolies. It is an anachronism that has no place in today's world.
Are you listening, conservative free market loudmouths?

By: Comcast deal is nearly done. If we don’t act, we lose.

Comcast deal is nearly done. If we don’t act, we lose. — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 20:20:15 +0000

[...] in November, I wrote about the dangers of a Comcast/NBC Universal acquisition. It’s frustrating to me that a larger light hasn’t been shined on it until AFTER the [...]

By: Jack Wade

Jack Wade — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 14:44:47 +0000

By: Jack Wade

Jack Wade — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 13:44:47 +0000

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By: TV Everywhere

TV Everywhere — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 23:59:00 +0000

Comcast’s Evil Plot to Control “TV Everywhere”

There can be no clearer indication of the dominate control that Comcast is seeking to gain on the future of TV than the announcement that Comcast owned thePlatform made today on providing an authentication solution for the Cable Industry’s “TV Everywhere” initiative.

http://www.multichannel.com/article/389628-ThePlatform_Wants_To_Handle_TV_Everywhere_For_Everyone.php

With this solution Comcast is clearly leveraging its dominate position as the largest Cable MSO to “offer” [essentially force] programmers to use its proprietary authentication solution if these programmers want to offer access to pay-tv programming on their own site.

Since this authentication solution will not only be used by programmers to interface with Comcast’s billing system but other Cable/IPTV companies as well, Comcast essentially is deploying a trojan horse that allows it to be directly in the middle of any “tv everywhere” customer authentication flow that takes place between its competitors and their customers.

If the Comcast/NBCU deal is allowed to take place then they will have significantly more programmers that they will control that they will force to use the Comcast authentication platform to interface with competing TV providers.

Are we to believe that they will not use this position to their advantage? Of course they will because their goal is to ensure they control “TV Everywhere.” This is the only way that they can ensure that the monopolistic business model that has sustained them for all these years stays intact.

This type of industry control and domination can not be allowed to take place. It will stifle competition and have a negative impact on consumers.

By: uberVU - social comments

uberVU - social comments — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 23:42:49 +0000

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