Time Warner Cable shows subscribers how to cut cord

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The nightmare scenario for cable companies is that customers drop their TV subscriptions and grab their video directly from the Web, turning the cable guys into mere providers of “dumb pipes.”

But here’s a comprehensive set of instructions from a big cable company showing its customers how to do just that. It suggests that they head to the likes of Hulu, Fancast, or “any search engine”–weird for it not to call out Google, no?–to find their favorite shows.

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