Facebook's goal of powering video navigation systems based on the viewing habits of friends could be thwarted by a 23-year-old U.S. law. Netflix tipped investors to the significance of the Video Privacy Protection Act in a letter to investors Monday, noting that it will soon launch a Facebook app that recommends content based on friend preferences in Canada and Latin America, but that current U.S. laws keep it from offering it domestically. (See Comcast Demos New Web-Based TV Service and Netflix Pops on Facebook Integration Buzz .)
Police arrested a 30-year-old Florida man for allegedly hackingBright House Networks's system and using customer account data to clone cable modems and sell Internet services for a one-time fee via Craigslist. He was able to obtain more than 1,200 addresses used to ID customer accounts over a one-month period.
Pace plc said revenues for the first half of 2011 increased 21 percent to US$1.2 billion, as inventory management has "normalized." (See Japan Quake Shakes Pace.)
Avail-TVN has launched Linear Complete, a bandwidth-saving, hosted MPEG-4 content delivery system that's targeted to Tier 2/3 cable MSOs. Zito Media is among the first to deploy it.
Increased penetration of broadband and mobile Internet is helping drive an increase in usage of video-sharing sites such as YouTube Inc. and Vimeo LLC, according to Pew Internet & American Life Project. It said 71 percent of U.S. Web surfers used video-sharing sites in May, up 5 percent from May 2010.
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