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#Netflix Reports Paid Customers Rise on Strength Overseas
▻https://www.wsj.com/articles/netflix-reports-paid-customers-rise-on-strength-overseas-11547759799

Companies including AT&T Inc.’s WarnerMedia and Walt Disney Co. are preparing their own content-streaming services to launch later this year. They will be competing with Netflix to sign up consumers and stock their services with content.

Their entry could drive up Netflix’s programming costs even further, including for popular reruns.

“We want to win,” [On n’avait pas remarqué] said Netflix Chairman and Chief Executive Reed Hastings when asked about all the new competition. On the company’s earnings call, Mr. Hastings said the goal is still to provide a better environment with incredible content and “no advertising.”

Netflix said Thursday it was “ready to pay top-of-market prices for second run content.” At the same time, it is making more of its own content in-house as it aims to be less reliant on outside suppliers for original shows and movies.

Dans son dernier rapport trimestriel — toujours très suivi, ça me fait penser aux Keynote d’Apple —, on apprend notamment :

– que la firme, qui ne cesse de professer la #transparence, notamment en interne, mais l’est très peu quand il s’agit de communiquer des #chiffres de visionnages de tel ou tel contenu, va commencer à le faire, mais on s’en doute de manière très ciblée.
– qu’évidemment elle n’a rien contre les salles de cinéma en soi, à condition de ne pas être contrainte par des obligations de financement de la création et les règlementations type "chronologie des médias" en France ; elle communique donc sur le nombre de cinéma qui ont diffusé Roma : 900 en tout. « People love films… at home AND in theaters. »
– que la techno utilisée pour l’épisode interactif de Black Mirror, dont on a pas mal parlé ici a été baptisée « Branch Manager ».

Source : ▻https://s22.q4cdn.com/959853165/files/doc_financials/quarterly_reports/2018/q4/01/FINAL-Q4-18-Shareholder-Letter.pdf

#SVOD #industrie_culturelle

FCC votes to repeal net neutrality rules, a milestone for Republican deregulation push - LA Times
▻http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-net-neutrality-fcc-20171214-story.html#nws=mcnewsletter
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“As a result of today’s misguided action, our broadband providers will get extraordinary new powers,” said Jessica Rosenworcel, one of two Democrats on the five-member FCC who voted against the repeal.

“They will have the power to block websites, the power to throttle services and the power to censor online content,” she said. “They will have the right to discriminate and favor the internet traffic of those companies with whom they have a pay-for-play arrangement and the right to consign all others to a slow and bumpy road.”
Protestors Rally At FCC Against Repeal Of Net Neutrality Rules
Demonstrators rally outside the Federal Communication Commission building Thursday to protest the repeal of net nutrality rules. (Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images)

The FCC’s net neutrality rules prohibited AT&T Inc., Charter Communications Inc., Verizon Communications Inc. and other broadband and wireless internet service providers from selling faster delivery of certain data, slowing speeds for specific video streams and other content, and blocking or otherwise discriminating against any legal online material.

To enforce the rules, the FCC classified broadband as a more highly regulated utility-like service under Title 2 of federal telecommunications law.

Telecom companies praised the repeal, while saying they are committed to the principles of net neutrality and have no plans to change their practices.

The FCC vote “does not mark the ‘end of the Internet as we know it;’ rather it heralds in a new era of light regulation that will benefit consumers,” said David L. Cohen, Comcast’s senior executive vice president.

But the companies have hedged on whether they would start charging additional fees to transport video streams or other content at a higher speed through their network in a practice known as paid prioritization.

Pai has said paid prioritization could accelerate the development of autonomous vehicles and home health monitoring, which would need reliably fast service.

But net neutrality supporters worry telecom companies will set up toll lanes on the internet, cutting deals with some websites to deliver their content faster and squeezing out start-ups and small companies that lack the money to pay for faster service.

#Neutralité_internet

AT&T to pay California $52 million in hazardous #waste disposal settlement | Reuters
▻http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/11/21/us-usa-at-t-california-idUSKCN0J50AG20141121

AT&T Inc (T.N) will pay $52 million in civil penalties and environmental compliance as part of a settlement with California over illegal dumping of hazardous waste but won’t be required to clean up the resulting contamination, state officials said on Thursday.

State officials said it marked the first enforcement action in California against a telecommunications company for mishandling of electronic waste. (...)
Investigators cited AT&T for illegally disposing of hazardous wastes and other materials at more than 235 of its warehouses and dispatch centers across the state over a nine-year period.

#e-waste