Awesome conversations with Virgin Media

[Cabalo]

And I thought only we had stupid ISPs (well, some).
Pretty cheap indeed. For a similar service I'd pay 40€ per month (around 33£).

[Skweeky]

Yeah, it's not too shabby. Been wanting Sky channels for a while any way; new House episodes, Terry Pratchett stuff etc...

[j2k4]

Called Sky, getting HD TV, 20 mb unlimited broadband and free evening and weekend calls for £20 a month.

I can get equivalent services here, but not for nearly that cheap.

Yeah - living in America.

Same kinds of things happen here, Skweeky. These companies take it for granted that you (well, at least chalice) will just put up with their stupidity. They literally think they own you as a customer.

There have been disputes regarding some of the various Dish companies and territorial rights over consumers who could physically receive channels via their dish, but could not subscribe because those territories were "owned" by the other company.

F'kn corporations.

We have the lawyers to thank - for their creativity in bypassing the competitive brake that allows capitalism to function with any degree of morality or integrity.

True story.

[megabyteme]

The Corporation [link] and IMDB was very eye-opening for me. If you haven't seen it, I recommend it along with Food, Inc. [link] and IMDB