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Time Warner pulls channels on Ipad app
US CONTENT PROVIDER Time Warner has pulled the plug on some of its Ipad app channels due to pressure from media conglomerates.
Time Warner has been forced to pull TV channels, including MTV and FX, that it streams to the Ipad app it developed and launched only a few weeks ago.
Viacom, Discovery Communications and Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation have all been trying to eek out a few dollars more from their revenue streams. According to the New York Times, the companies have pinged out cease and desist orders to Time Warner for alleged breach of contract violations. The problem is that Time Warner had already paid for the right to show the content on its old school television cable channels.
Media conglomerates are so scared of new-fangled things like, er, 'The Internet', that they are using every legal strategem in their power to control content. As far as they are concerned, Time Warner has only bought the rights to show their content on cable TV. Streamed content surely means that Time Warner has to be charged again for showing MTV and FX over Internet connections.
"We've got broad rights to provide television programming to every screen in your home," wrote Jeff Simmermon of Time Warner.
"We have some agreements that allow for viewing outside the home, and we're likely to add more of those eventually, but this will take some time," he added.
Time Warner has not had the luck of the Irish with its Ipad app. Only days after launching the service, it had to halve the number of channels it was broadcasting. Not in response to legal pressures, but because its servers melted under the volume of traffic served.
The media conglomerates have strafed Ipad apps with another form of attack this week. A cease and desist order was obtained against Zite, an Ipad news readers app. But Zite responded by saying that the rumours of its death have been greatly exaggerated. µ
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I wonder when all this greed will come crashing down. I think when it reaches its peak, the number 1 superpower will implode.
Why don't the networks have their own channel app by now? That's right, the coming a la carte model is going to kill their cash cows.
Looks like Job's Mob is finally getting a payback from the same kind of cRapple Jobs is so widely known for.
The really sad part is the US government has become puppets for the media mafia/cartels who not only censor all forms of entertainment media, but also censor actual NEWS events. Each instance I've encountered as an expat in Thailand during the last few years always says "We're sorry, this _______ (fill in the blank) media is unavailable due to 'Contractual Obligations'. When contractual obligations or unfair copyrights cause the censoring of news events there's definitely something f**king wrong. Corporate censorship is censorship nevertheless. The US has gone to Hell in a handbasket, and this is just one example.