Like it or not, Sen. Jay Rockefeller’s new bill asks the right questions about online streaming television competition.
OTT Disruption: Is the “Rockefeller Bill” the Answer?
Tag Archives: Netflix
When World Views Collide: Social Media And the SEC
The SEC’s charge against the CEO of Netflix for a Facebook post illustrates that even government agencies that “get it” technically are often trapped in outmoded world views.
Windows For Hollywood
The marketplace is showing not that DVDs are being sold OR rented “too early,” rather that technological convergence is making more and more options available to consumers, so building a library of physical DVDs is relatively unimportant, and certainly no longer a priority.
Business Methods Run Wild
It was bad enough with Amazon’s “one-click” patent, but now we’ve got insurance patents, order-processing patents and other patents for what are not inventions, but just ideas. Of course ideas are creative and deserve protection, but they should not be patentable.