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To: TigerPaw who wrote (3131)12/4/2001 10:58:47 AM
From: Frank A. Coluccio   of 3873
 
Thanks, TP. This one has a ring that is all too familiar, recently. To demonstrate the point, read the following exchange, which I lifted from a service provider forum last month.

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Aside from it's being quite a hoot, it's a classic example of the sentiments expressed by cable operators and ISPs today, most vehemently by the smaller ones who are struggling to make a buck. The larger ones, as you have implied, are driven by more ambitious forms of institutional greed and protectionism, backed by their rather formidable legal machinery and lobbying, along with the content owners who have been winning battles in the legislature:

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