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YouTube Hopes Obscure Cable Channels Will Broadcast From Its Site

YouTube Hopes Obscure Cable Channels Will Broadcast From Its Site

By Dan Seitz

Here's how cable channels make money: your cable company bundles them in packages, and makes you buy them in those bundled packages, so they get retransmission fees.

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Justice Department Investigating Cable Companies For Data Caps

Justice Department Investigating Cable Companies For Data Caps

By Dan Seitz | 2 comments

When we told you about Comcast's raspberry in the face of everybody who wanted to use Netflix more than a few times a month, we told them the Feds would show up.

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Internet Founding Father Calls Out Comcast On Their Data Caps

Internet Founding Father Calls Out Comcast On Their Data Caps

By Dan Seitz | 1 comment

We mentioned a while back that Comcast had decided that they would just stone-cold ignore the rules over net neutrality, declaring that using their streaming apps and other goodies on the XBox 360 wouldn't count against customer data caps.That smells bad to a lot of people, including Vint Cerf, one of the key players in writing TCP/IP, and essentially one of the founding fathers of the modern Internet.

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Netflix Formed Its Own PAC To Brace Going To War With Cable Companies

Netflix Formed Its Own PAC To Brace Going To War With Cable Companies

By Dan Seitz

In the escalating war between Big Cable and Netflix, a pretty big shot was just fired: Netflix is about to get into the political arena in earnest with its very own political action committee, creatively titled "Flixpac."Aside from sounding like a bulk deal at a Hollywood Video, what will Flixpac be up to.

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Apple And Netflix Become Streaming Video Transformer

Apple And Netflix Become Streaming Video Transformer

By Dan Seitz

Well, this is interesting: buried in Apple's largely expected and kinda boring iPad presentation, it was revealed that Netflix can now be paid for via iTunes.

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