re: Aereo Loses Copyright Fight

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The entire reason the BTN is so successful is because its on basic cable deals all throughout their footprint.

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They get a very small fraction of money from each station, which adds up.

If they charged $5 a month of $50 a year, I'd buy that (if they had more games on there) and the ESPN family of networks and call it a day and stream everything else I wanted.

ESPN and others that offer live content are the only providers that have customers over a barrel right now. Every other show can be retrived via the internet whether legally or illegally.

I think ESPN realizes this and is working to get ESPN3 and WatchESPN together to where if they found it economically viable, they would break away from Cable companies all together.