The IT Nerd

I have now officially heard everything. Time Warner Cable is complaining that it’s Video On Demand revenues are down because…. Wait for it…. We’re watching porn on the Internet (because it’s free) rather than on their Video On Demand service (which costs money). Don’t believe me, here’s a quote from an article posted on All Things Digital:

One of the things going on with VOD is that there’s been fairly steady trends over some time period now for adult to go down, largely because there’s that kind of material available on the Internet for free. And that’s pretty high margin. That’s been not just this quarter, but going on for some time period.

Okay. When your business depends on porn in whole or in part, you have a problem. That’s not meant to be a value judgement. Just an observation. Though it can’t be that bad based on their latest numbers where they still managed to make a pile of cash. Still, this is going to be a trend for Time Warner, not to mention any other cable or satellite provider. The Internet is the future for content distribution. No wonder ISP’s who have TV and Internet offerings want to throttle you to death to make sure their revenues on their TV side of the business stay high.

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