Current licensing practices already impose substantial costs and administrative burdens upon these [digital media] companies, and it would be untenable and unfair to require them to shoulder additional costs with respect to these buffer copies. |
I think that everyone would feel that a renegotiation that allows for a percentage of revenue would be the optimal outcome. |
There are elements of a win because the rate that was going to be in effect for the Web was cut in half, and there's no longer a two-tiered structure. |
This is good for the Internet, because it means more and more companies will have confidence that their content can be securely streamed to end-users. |