{"id":4000,"date":"2009-02-20T08:31:23","date_gmt":"2009-02-20T12:31:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hothardware.com\/News\/Cable-Companies-Seek-to-Limit-Online-Content"},"modified":"2009-02-20T08:31:23","modified_gmt":"2009-02-20T12:31:23","slug":"cable-companies-seek-to-limit-online-content","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/?p=4000","title":{"rendered":"Cable Companies Seek to Limit Online Content"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As it stands today, there are quite a few television shows available online for free via Hulu and broadcast websites, provided you\u2019re willing to sit through a few ads. The cable companies are losing out on customers because of this content, so now they\u2019re looking for a way to strong-arm customers into paying for cable. Their solution? To offer large numbers of cable shows online, but make that content only accessible to cable subscribers. The Wall Street Journal reports that Comcast and Time Warner Cable are<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As it stands today, there are quite a few television shows available online for free via Hulu and broadcast websites, provided you\u2019re willing to sit through a few ads. The cable companies are losing out on customers because of this content, so now they\u2019re looking for a way to strong-arm customers into paying for cable. Their solution? To offer large numbers of cable shows online, but make that content only accessible to cable subscribers. The Wall Street Journal reports that Comcast and Time Warner Cable are <a href=\"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/?p=4000\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4000\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}