We have seen sports leagues (Major League Baseball v. CBC Distribution and Marketing) and players associations (CBS Interactive v. National Football League Players Association) try to force fantasy providers to pay for the use of this information. Fantasy providers are exposed, and the leagues will continue to try to charge for the use of stats and, perhaps, even online conversation about the facts of the game (ex. the SEC’s ill-conceived ban on Social Media usage in stadiums). The next logical step is for the sports leagues to tell those who play online fantasy league sports that they will have to pay before using any statistics.

However, Comcast’s legal team has wasted no time. They are already in court fighting the FCC’s order making the erroneous argument that DirecTV’s Sunday Ticket is also anticompetitive, and that marginalizing you is ‘just business’. The Sunday Ticket, however, does not restrict sports fans from watching their games in local markets like Comcast does every day of the week. The bottom line is that they won’t walk away without a fight. Let’s keep the pressure on.