> This is a bubble. It can't go on forever. Sports teams/leagues can > either try to shift to a model that has some level of feasibility, or > you can do your best impersonation of the music and movie industries.
This gets back to what I said before, and what we've discussed with regard to torrents. If there's not an easy, reasonable way to watch what you want to legally, there are illegal ways to watch that are sufficiently easy and reasonable. I think PGage is right about how the current system works well for leagues, cable channels, cable providers, and most consumers. I'm sure the leagues recognize that they should come up with a better solution for out-of-market fans, but they obviously put their television partners' interest ahead of those fans. > Some cable company is going to finally push back to ESPN/Disney and > tell them no (it won't be with a local sports channel). They're going > to figure out how to tell a compelling story about it. And that's when > things will become very interesting. It'll require a cable company that's more sympathetic than ESPN/Disney. Finding one that's big enough to have any national impact will be difficult. With someone like Comcast, it would be "a pox on both their houses", since all we know is that we'll end up being the losers. -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
