News Corp Bans Cablevision Customers From Watching Hulu [Hulu]

News Corp. and Cablevision are currently stuck in a classic cable vs programming ” we pay too much, you pay too little” fight. But this time around News Corp. is flexing more muscle, they’re banning Cablevision Internet users from accessing Hulu too.

When the clock struck midnight on Saturday, Cablevision customers could now not watch FOX on their TV. That’s because News Corp. (which owns FOX) and Cablevision couldn’t come to an agreement on the costs that Cablevision should pay News Corp. It’s something that’s happened before with other networks and other cable providers but the recent twist is that News Corp. is using their stake in Hulu to ban Cablevision Internet users from accessing FOX content on Hulu in addition.

The problem this raises is that if programmers are using a ban of accessing Hulu (an online website, in spite of everything) as leverage against a cable provider for TV fees, it’s only going to kill the hope and promise of net neutrality. If cable providers and programmers continue to have their way, the internet could turn out to be the massive fucking mess that cable is.

And even worse, what happens when a cable provider and progammer, like as an instance Comcast-which owns NBC and thus has a stake in Hulu-in the future decides that so as to access NBC content on Hulu, you must have Comcast and other cable providers get locked out? It’s a messy situation that’s sure to get messier with the most recent and different avenues of content we will access now. [ All Things D ]

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