Showing posts with label Google TV. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Google TV. Show all posts

Friday, October 22, 2010

A Different Threat to Net Neutrality

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fredericguarino:
get ready to rumble !

continuations:
The whole fight about net neutrality is about to take a turn from the abstract to the concrete but in a somewhat unexpected way. It is not ISPs or telcos that are turning out to be the immediate culprits, but rather content owners, specifically TV networks. They are blocking Google TV from…


I was thinking the exact same thing this morning.  Why is accessing their content on Google TV any different from accessing their account in Google Chrome? Or Firefox? Or…? Isn’t the easy way around this just to turn all TVs into PCs?

Regardless, it’s just more dinosauric behavior from the networks.  You’re supposed to want to be on more devices, guys! Not less!