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Originally Posted by pnwmdk
No ISP will EVER do that. Just like no cell phone company will prevent you from calling phones of their competitors.
The ISP's interest is in retaining customers. The moment the customer finds that their ISP is selectively blocking their access, the competitors will swoop in and their customer base will VANISH faster than the dot-coms with no plan to make money went broke.
All you will do is add vast amounts of cost with NO benefits, ANYWHERE to anyone.
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This argument assumes that only one ISP will make that change and the others will still offer more for less. What's to stop all of them from making the change? Satellite TV used to be free. I know - my uncle had one of those huge dishes when I was a kid. It was AWESOME. He had like 5 bazillion channels. I watched Thai boxing.
THAI BOXING from Thailand. At home, we had the 3 regular channels + PBS. Thai boxing was pretty much absent.
Originally, all channels could be received
in the clear (ITC) and
free of charge. In 1986,
HBO began using the now-
obsolete VideoCipher system to
encrypt their channels. This met with much protest from owners of big-dish systems, most of which had no other option at the time for receiving such channels. Eventually HBO allowed dish owners to subscribe directly to their service, although at a price much higher ($12.95/month) than what cable subscribers were paying. This led to the 1986
attack on HBO's transponder on
Galaxy 1 by
Captain Midnight. One by one, all commercial channels followed HBO's lead and began encrypting their channels.
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