Posts by Jeff Tank 2 publicly visible posts • joined 7 Nov 2007
If I was Netflix or one of those other sprouting companies that provided legitimate movies over the internet, I'd sue Time Warner claiming anti-competitive business practices. For if TW wants to cap peoples bandwidth, people will try to conserve bandwidth, and if people try to conserver bandwidth, then our business will be ruined.
Viacom, owner of paramount, owner of Star Trek, once tried to shutdown every website with images, titles, character names, etc. Even if it had the name "Star Trek" on it.
It horribly backfired on Viacom with bad PR. Websites popped up flaming and bashing Viacom, they got overloaded with hate mail and even some death threats.
Viacom eventually pulled back and let the fans express thier love of Star Trek. Killing your fan base is a bad idea. Anyone with half a brain would know that.
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