A good book to read is Tim Wu's "The Master Switch", which predicts this as something called The Cycle. Reading the book gives you a sense how history repeats itself with new and open technology and how these open systems eventually get molded into closed systems that only a few companies control. It's been done with telephones, the radio and television. It seems the internet is in the early stages of this transistion.
What Comcast is doing is testing the waters. I personally find it just the beginning, as if this is allowed, other companies will follow suit.
What Comcast is doing is testing the waters. I personally find it just the beginning, as if this is allowed, other companies will follow suit.