ESPN to ISPs: Pay for Your Customers to Play Video

[Goronmon]

In what seems to be a bit of a growing trend, content providers are trying to push ISPs to pay for content to make it available for their customers.

http://blog.wired.com/business/2009/02/espn-stands-fir.html

I can't wait to choose my ISP based on which content I will be able to access...

[roboninja]

They really are trying to kill the Internet, aren't they? Their lack of control over the medium terrifies them.

[Restlessavenger]

In what seems to be a bit of a growing trend, content providers are trying to push ISPs to pay for content to make it available for their customers.

http://blog.wired.com/business/2009/02/espn-stands-fir.html

I can't wait to choose my ISP based on which content I will be able to access...

They have been doing this for quite sometime actually. They basically want to take their cable model and transfer it to the web.

[Johan]

AOL already failed. Ask Time Warner and Dick Parsons.

[violent]

I think the internet could be one of those things we look back upon and reminisce of it's infancy. Back when it was nothing more than a medium of shared information before taxes and restrictions turned it into a corporate tool.

[biosc1]

I think the internet could be one of those things we look back upon and reminisce of it's infancy. Back when it was nothing more than a medium of shared information before taxes and restrictions turned it into a corporate tool.

Nah, by that point, something new will be in it's infancy...started up to combat what the internet will have become.

For every medium that begins to fail, another one comes to take it's place.

[violent]

Nah, by that point, something new will be in it's infancy...started up to combat what the internet will have become.

For every medium that begins to fail, another one comes to take it's place.

We can't lose the internet just yet. Where are our streaming movies on demand on walls? E-burritos?

[hideouslywrinkled]

ESPN is fucking irritating anyway. All their videos are set to autoplay.

[Sandman]

This will never work because the majority of the people can't pick and choose their internet providers. Maybe if they are in a big city but otherwise your stuck with whatever is available.

[Raen]

This will never work because the majority of the people can't pick and choose their internet providers. Maybe if they are in a big city but otherwise your stuck with whatever is available.

Depends what system you use. Sure it is bound with cable, but ADSL (in the UK at least) is much less bound.

[Widgetcraft]

This will never work because the majority of the people can't pick and choose their internet providers. Maybe if they are in a big city but otherwise your stuck with whatever is available.

Heh, the same could be said for cable TV. Most people only have one company to choose, and that is it. Though, I suppose there is DirectTV and such.