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The tele­vi­sion indus­try is where news­pa­pers were 10 years ago — in denial that they need to change their busi­ness model. They have tried, on occa­sion, to argue that skip­ping com­mer­cials is “steal­ing” and sim­i­lar types of argu­ments. They are, as Henry points out, still mak­ing money — so they can afford to ignore the changes. I pre­dict that, as inevitable as the death of their cur­rent busi­ness is, their attempt to leg­is­late con­tent pro­tec­tions is as inevitable.