Time Warner and a few of its cronies have woken up one morning and decided that they are losing money to small community owned broadband services.

It appears that rather than becoming more efficient, or try and lower prices in the wake of such competition, the mega entertainment giant has called up a few of its tame politicians and is trying to get a law to get he competition banned.

This all started when  47,000 residents of Wilson, NC got tired of paying for broadband that was as fast as a snail who has been waiting too long for a heart donor to pop his clogs. The city government launched its own fiber ISP called Greenlight that offers some pretty solid packages ranging from $99 for 81 cable channels, unlimited phone service, and 10Mbps (down and up) internet to $170 for every single channel including premiums and 20Mbps up/down internet.

TWC and Embarq have screamed foul as they were offering less channels for a special discount price of $137. The pair's argument is that they can't compete against a state run outfit that sells a service for cost and so they are spending a fortune trying to get the opposition run out of town.