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CLICK HERE to Register for a free account and login for a smoother ad-free experience. It's easy, and only takes a few moments.If we want to be a free market then ABSOLUTELY TAKE AWAY their anti-trust exemption. WHY SHOULD they have one.
Compete without it.
I don't get every Red Sox, Celtics or Bruins games without buying a package through DTV. Are they going to take away their anti-trust exemptions?
You don't have a God given right to watch the Pats!! Get of the wallet and bye a dish! Everything the Gov touches gets effed up.
Only if they are undefeated going into the last game
I had a dish and watched 5 channels on it so I didn't need it. By the way are you one of the new bandwagon Pats fans that just decided to come here and become a fan because your sorry ass Panthers are the worst team in the NFL. You have no right to even be on this board or even talk about the Pats living in Charlotte. You sorry ass. Bandwagon lost soul.
Well that's your choice. I would like to go to cable in many (or several, anyway) ways but I stick with DirecTV for the Sunday Ticket. My choice. Your choice.I had a dish and watched 5 channels on it so I didn't need it.
Looks like the carefully orchestrated dog and pony show of the NFL ownership has had unforseen reprecussions.
The NFL figured that they would piss off the entire country by showing the Cowboys on the NFL Network and then turn around and sue cable providers so they could further line their pockets with gold at the expense of the fans and the teams (with stupid scheduling hardships). Well, they did manage to piss people off so they could try to put the heat on the cable companies and tell the cable companies how to run their business.
But apparently the NFL owners want to tell the cable companies what to do, but don't want to be told what to do by the government.
Sucks to be a rich NFL owner, don't it?
Looks like the carefully orchestrated dog and pony show of the NFL ownership has had unforseen reprecussions.
The NFL figured that they would piss off the entire country by showing the Cowboys on the NFL Network and then turn around and sue cable providers so they could further line their pockets with gold at the expense of the fans and the teams (with stupid scheduling hardships). Well, they did manage to piss people off so they could try to put the heat on the cable companies and tell the cable companies how to run their business.
But apparently the NFL owners want to tell the cable companies what to do, but don't want to be told what to do by the government.
Sucks to be a rich NFL owner, don't it?[/QUOTE]
Why?
When the federal gov't broke up the AT&T monopoly, the consumers benefited greatly. I'm not so sure about this situation, but when there's a big monopolistics/oligopoly, it can be beneficial for everyone for gov't to get involved.