[smcnally]

Kessler is catering to his audience here: remember, HBO butters its bread via their deals with cablecos, not through direct relationships with you or me. Maybe some day they'll want to own the relationship and disintermediate the middlemen cablecos. For now, they're the folks who pay HBO, so it's not in HBO's interest to piss them off by giving you and me more ammo in efforts to cut cords.