AOL-TimeWarner-EMI - Everything2.com

After AOL and Time Warner got together, they took over EMI.

Think not only of Content. All of Ted Turner's holdings, including CNN, but TimeWarner's movies, books, music, cartoons--Bugs Bunny and his friends--and EMI's music and entertainment holdings. Think also Conduit. The wire that brings it all to you.

You won't get a choice of anything that lies outsize their, admitedly, sizable domain. Will they supply anything that won't make them money??

And if it doesn't make them money, will they allow it to be distributed on their ISP?

Dial-up, the way the internet grew up, allowed the stuff at the ends, the many ends of the wire. If some corporate entity controls the whole wire, totally unregulated, like AT&T did, where is the competition, all you free enterprise capitalists?

Where is the competition is software if there is one big guy on the block, with an even bigger club? If indeed that is the way anything innovative ever really gets started? Does anyone remember ARPANet?

The threat to the Internet is not the government	Leaked AOL memo about hackings and how to handle press	Arpanet	AOL Time Warner
Kiss the Constitution goodbye	Ted Turner	Richard B. Cheney	EMI
Conduit	Mega Corporations	No, I'm not a Liberal	Art is the barometer of society
Corporate short-term goals	Cox Communications	Unattributed Blues	Regulation of Investigatory Powers Bill (UK)
free enterprise	Cultural imperialism	The problem is you're not paranoid enough!	CNN
tinfoil hat	Security Systems Standards and Certification Act	Deus Ex	AT&T