At the heart of the issue is that Sling Media, Orb Networks and similar companies cut out cable and satellite operators who pay great sums for transmission rights in their areas, according to Kliavkoff. Baseball sells transmission rights to specific geographical locations. So, a cable subscriber in San Francisco who watches a Giants baseball game from his or her laptop during a visit to Chicago is stealing from the Chicago cable operator who paid to transmit MLB games in that city.
Oh, come on! Do advertisers really get anything out of the deal if you're only visiting their locale? The advertisers in your home city get much more out of advertising to you.
This is another example of content owners trying to control how you consume their content. The more and more they try to control us, the less and less we become interested in consuming. This is one of the reasons I've never purchased anything off of iTunes: I don't want my listening controlled. I want to be able to listen to my music from any of my computers or any other device I have. MLB, RIAA, MPAA et al: get with the times or go away.
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MLB doesn’t like Sling
Posted by massnerder on June 7, 2006
Found this at C|Net:
Oh, come on! Do advertisers really get anything out of the deal if you're only visiting their locale? The advertisers in your home city get much more out of advertising to you.
This is another example of content owners trying to control how you consume their content. The more and more they try to control us, the less and less we become interested in consuming. This is one of the reasons I've never purchased anything off of iTunes: I don't want my listening controlled. I want to be able to listen to my music from any of my computers or any other device I have. MLB, RIAA, MPAA et al: get with the times or go away.
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