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Trapped into paying extra for cable TV sports
Los Angeles Times ^ | 5/1/14 | David Lazarus

Posted on 05/06/2014 12:51:00 PM PDT by jeannineinsd

Cable TV's sports costs are prompting a growing number of people to "cut the cord".

Exhibit A: The $8 billion charged by the Dodgers for broadcast rights to their games knowing full well that pay-TV companies would have to pass along this sky-high cost to all customers.

Time Warner Cable is the Dodgers' partner in crime. It paid that whopping sum for exclusive rights to distribute the Dodgers channel to other pay-TV companies, assuming, like the team, that it would get away with sticking both fans and non-fans with an extra $4 to $5 fee every month.

The harsh reality, however, is that most Southern California pay-TV customers already are forking out big bucks for local sports that they may never watch.

(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; US: California
KEYWORDS: cabletv; dodgers; sports; timewarner
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To: sheana
Agree, for the most part. The thing you need to remember is that the shows were already broadcast, which means that they already got their revenue in for the episode from whichever company purchased the rights to broadcast it. So it is already bought and paid for. The broadcasters are also already paid by the commercials they ran during the airing of the program, which was then sent out over the Public Airwaves, so no losses there either.

If someone happens to loan a recording out to someone else so they too can see the program, the originator and the broadcaster (and all the advertisers) are already paid, so they lose nothing.

So long as you do not attempt to re-sell the program in any attempt to profit from it, there is nothing legally wrong with viewing it after it was broadcast.

I think all the streaming sites are the wave of the future.

121 posted on 05/07/2014 11:33:32 AM PDT by Utilizer (Bacon A'kbar! - In world today are only peaceful people, and the mooslimbs trying to kill them-)
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To: sheana

No, I didn’t mean you were doing anything illegal, as laws currently written, but by most legal reckoning, the sites distributing these videos, streaming or not, are committing infringement. I just stay away from them; besides the fact I don’t watch movies, have plenty of other things to worry about.


122 posted on 05/07/2014 11:37:47 AM PDT by steve86 (Acerbic by nature not nurture)
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To: Utilizer

Your rationalizations may or may not win over a jury some day in the future after laws are clarified regarding streaming of copyrighted content. But like I say, I don’t watch tv or movies, doesn’t affect me one way or the other.


123 posted on 05/07/2014 11:42:42 AM PDT by steve86 (Acerbic by nature not nurture)
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To: sheana

Actually, the latest television sets I have looked at since at least a few years ago already come with a standard VGA connector to go along with the HDMI, RCA, and S-Video so most people are covered. Here, the VGA port works just fine for most standard television programmes.


124 posted on 05/07/2014 11:50:20 AM PDT by Utilizer (Bacon A'kbar! - In world today are only peaceful people, and the mooslimbs trying to kill them-)
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To: steve86

IANAL, but in general, as soon as they feel they can prove damages simply because I happened to stream something like an episode of NCIS to watch in privacy here at home, then I will worry. I think they have no chance in attempting to prove anything of the sort.


125 posted on 05/07/2014 11:53:41 AM PDT by Utilizer (Bacon A'kbar! - In world today are only peaceful people, and the mooslimbs trying to kill them-)
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To: ican'tbelieveit

Yep. It’s a special kind of freedom.


126 posted on 05/07/2014 2:04:35 PM PDT by EDINVA
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To: MarineBrat

Thanks FRiend. I have a Radio Shack indoor antenna and it works pretty good. I will look into the outdoor antenna ;


127 posted on 05/07/2014 5:04:45 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen (Beat your plowshares into swords. Let the weak say I am strong)
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To: Bubba Ho-Tep

do you remember the model number ?


128 posted on 05/07/2014 5:05:39 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen (Beat your plowshares into swords. Let the weak say I am strong)
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To: jeannineinsd
Dumped cable over a year ago.

Started gaming with a Christian-centered, no profanity group meeting lots of committed Christians, including a good number of stalwarts from GB and Europe.

TV is garbage.

129 posted on 05/07/2014 5:09:54 PM PDT by Trailerpark Badass (There should be a whole lot more going on than throwing bleach, said one woman.)
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To: Kid Shelleen

Terk TV32.


130 posted on 05/07/2014 11:16:43 PM PDT by Bubba Ho-Tep ("The rat always knows when he's in with weasels"-- Tom Waits)
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To: Bubba Ho-Tep

THANKS; I just called Verizon and dumped my cable TV service.


131 posted on 05/08/2014 4:14:58 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen (Beat your plowshares into swords. Let the weak say I am strong)
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To: Utilizer

I had a run-in with directtv, cancelled, and now watch all of the hockey games on a .eu site. They have EVERYTHING on that site.


132 posted on 05/12/2014 9:21:32 AM PDT by gr8eman (There's no "R" in Warshington!)
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