Comcast is, depending on the eye of the beholder, either the ultimate evil or the provider of data-streams. Let me elaborate on this a little more, the better part of the Media Industry tries to quench ISPs down to some kind of TV outlet, controlled by RIAA and the likes. To complicate matters further, either Disney will be regarded as a switch-over to the 'dark side' or won't be part of the Media Industry Club at all. Given that outlook, buying Disney doesn't seem to be such a good idea any more.
A valid question would be how Time Warner handles its AOL acquisition. They actually don't. The AOL brand-name was removed from the company logo, do I need to say more? That case just seems to be different, bear with me. Time Warner has no clue how to use the marketing power of the AOL brand, instead they run with the wolves and try to sue every penny out of their potential customers instead of selling music to them. Cynics might argue they try to sue the people into buying the silvery disks disguised as real audio CDs and won't understand that there is no way of turning back the time to the analog age. Comcast on the other hand is a provider for cable-services and an ISP among other things, so Disney would be 'tainted' by being part of either the evil thing the Media Industry can't live without (cable) or the end of the world as 'they' know it (ISPs). So if Disney wants to play with the 'others', let alone tries to be recognized as one of 'them', there is an inherent danger that 'they' simply don't.
Had to get this off my chest and will switch to categories within the next couple of days to differentiate my rants from the *NIX infos.... This should show up in the 'Rants' category as well.
3:59:05 PM