[ NNSquad ] CBS retaliates, blocks online shows for Time Warner cable customers

[Lauren Weinstein <lauren@vortex.com>]

CBS retaliates, blocks online shows for Time Warner cable customers

http://j.mp/12Nhbcz  (Reuters)

   "U.S. broadcast network CBS took its dispute with Time Warner Cable to
    the Internet, blocking access to shows on the CBS.com website for the
    cable operator's customers in New York and Los Angeles.  The move
    followed Time Warner Cable's decision on Friday to drop CBS from its
    systems in those markets and some others, an escalation of a
    weeks-long fight over the fees it pays to carry the network.  CBS's
    retaliation showed the increasingly powerful position content owners
    enjoy online. Time Warner Cable controls access to CBS programs seen
    on TV, but it is powerless to do the same for its online customers."

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Here in L.A., TWC channels 2 and 9 (KCBS/KCAL) are blocked with a
self-serving slide from TWC complaining about CBS.  But this is a
matter of unmitigated greed by *both* CBS and TWC, and has now
escalated into exactly the kind of net neutrality violation we've been
warning about for years.

--Lauren--
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