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- Path: sparky!uunet!peora!upchrch!joel
- From: joel@upchrch.UUCP (Joel Upchurch )
- Newsgroups: misc.consumers
- Subject: Re: Cable Bill Rip-off
- Message-ID: <yR5csB2w164w@upchrch.UUCP>
- Date: Fri, 09 Oct 92 01:51:09 EDT
- References: <1992Oct6.193710.195@sdg.dra.com>
- Organization: Upchurch Computer Consulting, Orlando FL
- Lines: 23
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- sean@sdg.dra.com writes:
-
- > The method by which the cable companies get to retransmit the broadcast
- > stations signals is economic baloney. If I took TIME magazine and xeroxed
- > a few million copies and sold them to people, Time-Warner would be all
- > over me for copyright infringement. Oh, sure, I'm increasing the
- > number of readers for the advertisements in TIME magazine, so they should
- > be grateful and that they can now charge more for advertising. NOT!
-
- There is one big flaw in your logic. They don't hand Time magazine out
- free on every street corner. A more valid analogy would be these free
- newspapers that get thrown on my yard whether I want them or not. I
- doubt if they would object to doing what you describe, as long as they
- could keep track of their readership and charge for the advertising
- accordingly. Now if someone just copied the articles and put in their
- own advertising, then they would probably have a beef.
-
- If they want people to pay for their programming, then they should
- stop broadcasting it.
-
- (If your mail bounces use the address below.)
- Joel Upchurch/Upchurch Computer Consulting/718 Galsworthy/Orlando, FL 32809
- joel@peora.ccur.com {uiucuxc,hoptoad,petsd,ucf-cs}!peora!joel (407) 859-0982
-