So yesterday Viacom showed us one way of dealing with a carriage dispute, by taking down online versions of its programming when DirecTV pointed disgruntled viewers to the web as a way to get their Daily Show fix. But AMC Networks, which is in the midst of its own dispute with satellite provider Dish, has taken just the opposite approach: This Sunday, it will be streaming the season premiere of Breaking Bad for free online. At www.amctv.com/breakingbad4dish/, the cable network has set up a page that will let users register starting Friday, to watch a live stream of the Season Five season premiere at the same time that the show is broadcast on cable and satellite service. While there will be free registration involved to tune in, an AMC spokesperson confirmed that there's no real way for the network to verify that viewers are actually Dish subscribers. But the assumption is that if they don't pay for Dish, they'll probably be watching through a competing cable or satellite service. Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/90bBdQYt4Y4/
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