[opendtv] Re: TV Programmers Put Subscriber Caps on Skinny Bundles | Media - Advertising Age

  • From: Craig Birkmaier <craig@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2015 06:16:41 -0400

On Apr 8, 2015, at 8:40 PM, Manfredi, Albert E <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

The Internet works AGAINST attempts to foster oligopolies, Craig. Whereas
walled garden old-school MVPD nets are the perfect environment for
oligopolies. These CEOs are discovering this fact, as demonstrated many times
just in this past year.

The Internet has no clue whether a service that uses it is a monopoly or a
highly competitive industry. Just ask Apple, which got prosecuted for
monopolistic behavior when they entered the e-books market, which was dominated
by a monopolist, Amazon.

These are business decisions, not technology decisions, and political as well,
when the government picks winners and losers, or decides to regulate an
industry.

The Internet is just the pipe Bert, and it can easily be used to support
monopolies. The content owners fully understand this.

Regards
Craig


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