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In a previous article, Bill Kennedy writes:
+
+                              The premium services I subscribe to do,
+indeed, send money to the nearest cable company for my subscription
+rather than giving me a break on the rate.  Program originators claim
+that it is a necessary "courtesy" to keep cable companies happy.
+

    The cable companies get away with this idiocy because they have
a monopoly -- enforced by the local government -- on service in their
area.  The laws involved are many and convoluted but the result is to
benefit the cable companies, screw you and me, and prevent the advance
of technology via competition.
    I refuse to be a party to such shenanigans.

-- 
Robert Bickford         {hplabs, ucbvax, lll-lcc, ptsfa}!well!rab
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