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6 Sep 2024 07:15:27 EDT (-0400)
  Re: The EU and the "Telecoms Package" directives  
From: scott
Date: 21 Apr 2009 06:40:31
Message: <49eda29f$1@news.povray.org>
> ...until ISPs start deciding to charge content producers in order to allow 
> access to their content. Hell, ISPs are *already* trying to charge the BBC 
> for access to iPlayer because it hurts their profits.

Sure, but that's a standard commercial matter to sort out, not legal.  If 
they wanted the ISP could block iPlayer and save the bandwidth, but there is 
no way they would do that because they would lose a load of customers. 
Basically the ISPs have no commercial leverage against the BBC, the same way 
as they can't tell YouTube to pay them money.


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