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MAY
2011
Posts for Wouter Schilpzand
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MAY
2011
Legal content rules: real time entertainment tops file-sharing in North American traffic
For the first time in history, legal content offerings were responsible for more internet traffic than file sharing, according to Sandvine’s yearly analysis of global spring internet traffic. In North America at least. A special places is reserved for movie streaming service Netflix, that on its own, is now responsible for most of the downstream traffic (29,7%).Earlier, Netflix already accounted...19
MAY
2011
UPC Austria needs to make unlawful site unavailable to clients
A Viennese court has ruled that ISP UPC needs to make it impossible for her clients to open the website Kino.to. The Austrian judge views such a measure as a last resort. But, as the site made content available from "evidently illegal" sources and the site's administrators cannot be found, the court deemed the measure proportionate if enforced by measures such as blocking the site's IP...18
MAY
2011
For profitability, Spotify needs tenfold increase in membership
Spotify is doing well in Europe. In the past year, Dutch Spotify users streamed for 2000 years of music. In Sweden and Norway, the streaming music service is the music industry’s second biggest digital earner, surpassed only by iTunes. However, the company is not profitable yet. To take that important step, Spotify has been looking to expand across the Atlantic for some time now. Breaking in to...17
MAY
2011