[mythtv-users] Comcast Equipment Update

[Tom Bongiorno]

On Fri, Feb 3, 2017 at 11:40 AM, Gary Buhrmaster <gary.buhrmaster at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
> You are not actually paying for the content, you are paying
> for a license to view the content as authorized by that
> license, which comes with various restrictions.  If your
> lawyer told you you were actually paying for the content
> you need a better lawyer.
>
>
Are you saying that my "contract" with Comcast says something about me
paying for a license to view the content? If so, they have crafted the
wording to enable these types of fees by design, not by necessity. I don't
have a lawyer. I hope that dealing with Comcast would never require one.
Subscribing to cable should not require legal counsel.

Is Comcast being charged by the content creators for each device or each
subscribers? I suspect the second is true. If so, outlet fees are
completely bogus. There is effectively zero cost and infrastructure
required to authorize way more devices than anyone could ever want. If
there is a cost to them, their infrastructure is seriously flawed.

-Tom
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