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Originally Posted by retiredguy123
Please explain. Why shouldn't ABC, CBS, NBC, and Fox be able to sell their copyrighted content to Comcast for resale to Comcast customers? Why should the courts get involved?
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I think many of you forget about the days of UHF and VHF TV, when content was paid for by...
advertisers.
Now, content is paid for by advertisers AND subscribers. They get paid double for the same content, from two different sources.
If you're watching ABC news, you're watching commercial TV. You pay for the privilege of seeing advertisements, which you might or might not want to see, and which the advertisers are also paying to present to you.
This was the #1 drawback to pay-tv, back in the day when cable first showed up. It was why ad-free TV was such a huge deal, even if you had to pay extra for it.
Now though, it doesn't matter what you watch. If you don't have an antenna and are watching TV shows on stations that you could normally see with an antenna for free, you are paying to watch advertisements.