Authur...your post is informative...but the real point to this long long thread, is that there is a principle involved. That customers who pay for a product (in this case HBO Go), ought to be able to watch/use that product in whatever way they choose.
After all, the product is BOUGHT AND PAID FOR. The contractual arrangement of the sale of the good or service has been completed, and ownership and/or right-to-use has passed legally and COMPLETELY to the purchaser.
Yet Comcast thinks, even AFTER that legal process has been completed, that they still have the right to restrict how their customers watch/use that product
That is simpy sickening, disgusting, slimy, greedy, unethical, immoral, and just plain WRONG...and courts have found in similar cases, that it's also illegal.
And then what's worse...is when their customers complain about their dispicable practices, they respond by saying "we try everything we can to please our customers...we are working on it...our engineers are doing their best...customer satisfaction is number 1..."
Which is complete PACK OF LIES...and they tell those lies right to the customer's face.
Wow Comcast executives are trash.