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Excite@Home users face a video collar
When new subscribers to the Excite@Home (Nasdaq:ATHM) cable modem service sign their contract, no one tells them where the land mines are buried. Those land mines come in the form of a mandated ban on providing access to any streaming video longer than 10 minutes in length and the right of any cable operator to independently ban any kind of content from being accessed by their particular cable modem subscribers.
When new subscribers to the Excite@Home (Nasdaq:ATHM) cable modem service sign their contract, no one tells them where the land mines are buried.
Those land mines come in the form of a mandated ban on providing access to any streaming video longer than 10 minutes in length and the right of any cable operator to independently ban any kind of content from being accessed by their particular cable modem subscribers. Full story. -- Brock N. Meeks, MSNBC
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