[Cialug] OT: A la carte cable (was: no more UPS needed)

[Rob Miller]

Stuart Thiessen, are you related to Eldon and Anita Thiessen and Homer and
Luanna Leichliter?  Just wondering because I am also related to them.
Robert Miller

On Jan 6, 2008 5:43 PM, Stuart Thiessen <sthiessen at passitonservices.org>
wrote:

> Ehhh ... I have never gotten cable or satellite because I never felt I
> should subsidize channels in which I have no interest.
>
> They are not entitled to my money to support their programming. That
> should be my decision, not theirs. An all or nothing choice means they get
> nothing from me. It's almost like pre-installing Windows and not giving me
> the option to have Linux or other OS pre-installed. :-)
>
> Now, if I want reruns, I just buy the DVD's.
>
> Stuart
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: "Nathan Stien" <nathanism at gmail.com>
>
> Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2008 15:02:21
> To:"Central Iowa Linux Users Group" <cialug at cialug.org>
> Subject: [Cialug] OT: A la carte cable (was: no more UPS needed)
>
>
> On Jan 5, 2008 2:49 PM, Barry Von Ahsen <barry at vonahsen.com> wrote:
> > I do like the PTC for one reason, they're pushing the hardest for a la
> > carte cable, so they don't have to pay for the "smutty" channels
>
> I used to be a believer in [mandatory] a la carte, but I have since
> changed my mind.  I pretty much agree with this assessment about how
> it would harm programming diversity:
>
> http://www.techliberation.com/archives/043010.php
>
> And this is an interesting one about the conjunction between a la
> carte and PTC-style efforts to censor television:
>
> http://www.techliberation.com/archives/042416.php
>
> Tech Liberation Front is in general a pretty good tech law blog, if
> you're into that sort of thing.
>
> - Nathan
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