Based just on a quick Google search (so I could be mistaken), this appears to be total bullshit. This is how HBO Go describes itself on their website:
“Get unlimited access to all your favorite HBO® shows, hit movies, sports, comedy and more, plus bonus features and behind-the-scenes extras. It’s all free with your HBO subscription through participating television providers and available on your favorite devices.” In other words, it’s exactly the same as complaining that a WISP doesn’t “give” its customers ESPN3. HBO Go appears not to be an OTT service with individual subscriptions. It appears to be an extra, Internet based service that comes only with HBO from a cable provider. So the complaint appears to be that Comcast has not offered HBO Go to its cable customers who have HBO. It seems to me that is different from “blocking” HBO Go to your Internet customers, as the article claims. From: Mike Hammett Sent: Thursday, March 05, 2015 7:08 PM To: Animal Farm Subject: [AFMUG] Comcast vs. HBO Go on PS4? http://www.extremetech.com/computing/200479-this-is-why-we-need-internet-regulation-comcast-blocks-hbo-go-app-from-working-on-ps4 Do we know anything about this? The article above runs over Comcast with a bus, but does little to technically explain why\how Comcast is blocking them. ----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com
