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Game Thread Game One: #1 Ohio State 35, Northern Illinois 12 (9/2/06)

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2006 is the year of the Buckeye's. NIU will be a good game, I wil be there wearing, and bleeding my scarlet and grey, and supporting the #1 team in the country. Wolfe is a good Tb, i watched him last year, as Akron (my home town) defeated him and his team in teh Mac Championship. This can only mean good things for tOSU, if Akron can beat NIU, I don't see how in hell we can't. Good luck to NIU fans, but my pride and confidence stands with tOSU on this one.

Buckeye till death.
 
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MililaniBuckeye said:
Uh, ISPs don't "carry" streaming videos...all ISPs do is provide internet access. I was able to get to that site no problem...as long as you're on-line, you can get it.
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Actually, this is, or at least was, ISP specific.

Certain ISPs "carried" this service while others didn't. Essentially, some ISPs signed up with ESPN to grant this service for free to their subscribers, while any visitors to ESPN360 from other ISPs were only shown a message saying something to the effect of "please contact your cheap ass ISP to set up service."

That is the info the last I knew; certain major cable ISPs provided the service and others didn't. I don't know the situation now.
 
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kinch said:
Essentially, some ISPs signed up with ESPN to grant this service for free to their subscribers, while any visitors to ESPN360 from other ISPs were only shown a message saying something to the effect of "please contact your cheap ass ISP to set up service."
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I'm not sure if RoadRunner Hawaii has signed up, but I was able to access it. Also, I don't think it's legal for a site to force an ISP to pay it to allow access to the site. Anyway, I'll try to access the site tomorrow from work...I know the Air Force won't be paying ESPN for access.
 
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Here is the latest info I could find on ESPN360.com. Contrary to the information in the article, I, a Time Warner subscriber, am able to access the site:

http://weblogs.java.net/blog/scottschram/archive/2006/08/espn360com_you.html

Espn360.com - You *will* pay, visit or not.
Posted by scottschram on August 02, 2006 at 01:41 PM | Comments (0)

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that if you're using Verizon Communications or Charter Communications as your ISP, you're paying for espn360.com whether you use it or not.

Sarah Nassauer reports that Walt Disney's ESPN360 requires ISPs to pay for the right to offer their service. "Verizon Communications Inc. and Charter Communications Inc. -- have signed up to offer ESPN360. The biggest Internet providers, such as cable operators Comcast Corp., Cox Communications Inc. and Time Warner Inc., are refusing." "Adelphia Communications had carried ESPN360, but the company is being carved up by Time Warner and Comcast."

I'm all for people being able to charge whatever the market will bear for their services, and the referenced WSJ article is a subscription service that I pay for.

I really don't like paying for a top bandwidth ISP so I can visit web sites that I'm interested in, and have a little tax tagged on there by ESPN, just like they've been doing to my cable bill for years and years.

Bundling of services (where you get what you want, but you have to take a heap of crap with it and pay more) is eventually doomed because of the power of our first choice as I discussed in my previous blog entry on net neutrality. See a hilarious video where Ask Ninja explains net neutrality and while you're there, you're not watching ESPN. :)
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