I understand what you're saying I just don't think it needs to be quite as static as you're making it out just to keep the whole system from collapsing under it's own lameness. I also think that if you make it something you have to opt into - the majority of people will just stay with their existing overly expensive lame pans out of sheer laziness. The majority of these stations are supported primarily by advertising revenue anyway and not the money from cable bills anyway so I don't think it would be as big an impact to have my extra .000001 cents not go to CBN to keep the telepreachers in hookers and crystal meth
Unfortunately cable providers and broadcasters are aging dinosaurs. With the advent of online content providers and the ease with which any local goob with a macbook and some costuming know how can make his own weekly show the cable companies aren't going to be able to maintain the lock they once had. If they don't adapt, they're going to die out. In my opinion if a company can't make it in the market it either needs to change their ways to adapt or go out of business. I don't consider that anti-corporate or anti-libertarian. I see it as a pro-consumer.
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Date: 2008-12-31 11:50 pm (UTC)Unfortunately cable providers and broadcasters are aging dinosaurs. With the advent of online content providers and the ease with which any local goob with a macbook and some costuming know how can make his own weekly show the cable companies aren't going to be able to maintain the lock they once had. If they don't adapt, they're going to die out. In my opinion if a company can't make it in the market it either needs to change their ways to adapt or go out of business. I don't consider that anti-corporate or anti-libertarian. I see it as a pro-consumer.