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Originally Posted by Gunslinger
OK, it's pushing the supermarket analogy at bit further, but in the examples you quote, customers still have a free choice where they buy the product itself. If say Tesco not only obtained the exclusive rights to sell Weetabix but then said, by the way if you want buy it you also have to get your entire year's (or week's) shopping here too, there would quite rightly be an outcry.
The problem is not Sky per se, who just do what they can get away with, it's exclusivity coupled with the enforced bundling of channels, which take away the ability of customers to pick and mix what they want to see.
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Yes, the problem is the legislative environment in which the entertainment industry works.
Programmes should be freely available in the same way that music is, it's not rocket science. I have no problems with channels being exclusive but programmes should be available to any channel that wants to get the rights to show them.
It's simply annoying that if I do not want to be denied HBO programming I have to subscribe to Sky (when I want VM for Netflix and everything else I like about TIVO, etc) as well as VM, and most of the content is duplicated.
I want everything on the one box and I'm not interested in the Now Box or any of the other devices that I'd have to buy in order to receive the missing content. It's a ridiculous system that encourages piracy and is overdue for change.