With every passing day the 1992 Cable Act becomes more of a rabbit-ear relic of a bygone one-way communication era, something that more appropriately should be part of a museum exhibit or ahistory book not permanently driving the current and future trajectory of American video competition, technology and innovation.
For at stake was thefuture of a one-of-a-kind collection and an important episode in thehistory of American taste, a subject the general public knows too little about.