Comments on: Dish’s Ergen: Auto Hop protecting TV from online video barbarism http://paidcontent.org/2012/06/08/dishs-ergen-auto-hop-protecting-tv-from-online-video-barbarism/ The economics of digital content Fri, 13 Dec 2013 18:54:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: guest http://paidcontent.org/2012/06/08/dishs-ergen-auto-hop-protecting-tv-from-online-video-barbarism/#comment-103004 Mon, 11 Jun 2012 13:50:53 +0000 http://paidcontent.org/?p=211094#comment-103004 Seriously? You “don’t understand”? That’s nonsense. Of course you understand. All of those companies derive the greater part of their gross revenue from advertising. The amount of $ per ad they get is directly correlated to the number of measured views they can report on each of these ads. If millions of Dish subscribers aren’t watching those ads, then their revenues drop.

Dish may or may not be right in their legal position on the AutoHop device, but let’s not be children and pretend we “don’t understand”.

]]> By: mitchellsbunggee http://paidcontent.org/2012/06/08/dishs-ergen-auto-hop-protecting-tv-from-online-video-barbarism/#comment-102769 Sat, 09 Jun 2012 15:13:26 +0000 http://paidcontent.org/?p=211094#comment-102769 I don’t understand why CBS, FOX, & NBC execs don’t want us to enjoy commercial-free TV. I’m a DISH employee – AutoHop is great because you can easily watch commercial-free TV. Public Knowledge, a consumer advocacy group, is taking a stand for consumers by creating a petition that tells CBS, FOX, & NBC media to keep their hands out of your living room & DVR. Sign their petition to keep control of how you watch TV http://bit.ly/KFdn1Q

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