time-warner announced last week that they are toying with the idea of instituting pricing tables based upon bandwidth usage for their broadband cable providers. hbo (a division of time-warner) then announced they are test offering their content available for download. warner brothers (another division of time-warner) also announced they are thinking about offering their movie catalog for download.
is it just me or does this seem fishy? first they announce that “oh no! all our customers are using all our bandwidth so we need to put a pricing control on that” then they announce “hey every body, here are some really cool things for you to download at a price cheaper than buying a dvd!”
they fail to point out that the larger files would suck up bandwidth very quickly causing you to enter into their ‘higher priced tiers’ so the small percentage discount off the normally $20.00 that you spend for the $0.25 small plastic disc, would be moot.
these fat cats are definitely sneaky.
~adieu