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Understanding Verizon v. FCC

NEWS By JAMESDELONG15 YEARS AGO

The DC Circuit yesterday dismissed the appeals of the FCC Net Neutrality order filed by Verizon and MetroPCS on the grounds that they were filed prematurely – no appeal can be taken until the order is published in the Federal Register, an …

The Future History of Net Neutrality

NEWS By JAMESDELONG15 YEARS AGO

While working on a non-DigSoc project, I ran across this statement from the Association of American Railroads: • In fact, from 1980 through 2009, U.S. freight railroads reinvested more than $460 billion — more than 40 cents out of every revenue dollar …

Netflix and Original Content

NEWS By JAMESDELONG15 YEARS AGO

My post on Jason Kilar and Hulu touched on the possibility that Kilar sees Hulu as a potential prime distributor, dealing directly with content creators instead of getting only content originally distributed by others. It turns out that Netflix is thinking along …

And the Truth Will Make You Free

NEWS By JAMESDELONG15 YEARS AGO

Perhaps even free of your employment. When Hulu CEO Jason Kilar blogged his “thoughts about the future of TV” on the Hulu website, the reaction was strong:  “Is Jason Kilar Trying to Get Fired?” headlined a piece the next day on the …

Drilling into the FCC Open Internet Order

NEWS By JAMESDELONG15 YEARS AGO

An old adage of marketing is that people do not buy drills – they buy holes. Cliché it may be, but the statement embodies real wisdom, in that businesses that focus on value as the customer sees it are more likely to …

Future of ‘Net Investment Looks Bleak

NEWS By JAMESDELONG16 YEARS AGO

At Investor’s Business Daily, Robert Higgs takes a gloomy look at the current state of net investment in the U.S., and concludes: Unless private investment recovers more rapidly, the economy’s recovery is sure to remain slow, too slow to significantly lower unemployment. …

Will Firefly Glow Again?

NEWS By JAMESDELONG16 YEARS AGO

A serious source of current woe over production of content is the difference between pay-to-experience and advertising-supported business models. In ad-supported, the product is the viewers’ eyeballs, which are sold to the marketer. Thus the amount of money available for content production …

State of the Recorded Music Industry

NEWS By JAMESDELONG16 YEARS AGO

Michael DeGusta does a nice job analyzing “The REAL Death of the Music Industry” at Business Insider. In terms of revenue per capita, the recorded music business has gone down from $71 in 2000 to $26 in 2009 (2011 dollars).  In terms …

“An Estimate of Infringing Use of the Internet”

NEWS By JAMESDELONG16 YEARS AGO

Envisional, a Brit research firm specializing in protection against piracy, counterfeiting, and other intellectual property appropriation, was commissioned by NBC Universal to make An Estimate of Infringing Use of the Internet (Jan. 2011). The report was released this week by ITIF, with …

Update: Appeals of the FCC Net Neutrality Rule

NEWS By JAMESDELONG16 YEARS AGO

The appeals of the FCC’s Net Neutrality rule continued to run their courses this week. [For background, see Which Court Gets to Hear the Net Neutrality Appeal? (Jan. 21) &  More on the Verizon Appeal of the Net Neutrality Regulation (Jan. 24).] …

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