TeleRead: News and views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics » netflix http://www.teleread.com News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Wed, 22 May 2013 20:45:17 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 Netflix CEO: Password Sharing is Not a Big Deal http://www.teleread.com/piracy/netflix-ceo-password-sharing-is-not-a-big-deal/ http://www.teleread.com/piracy/netflix-ceo-password-sharing-is-not-a-big-deal/#comments Tue, 23 Apr 2013 14:00:05 +0000 Joanna Cabot http://www.teleread.com/?p=83823 Netflix CEO Reed Hastings is on the record with a comment over at GigaOM that password sharing among family members is not a big deal. I applaud him for his sensibility in recognizing this. I think too many content creators fail to make a distinction between casual sharing amongst members of a household, and uploading to [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/booxl-another-spotify-for-e-books-slated-to-launch-in-beta-this-february/feed/ 0 Public domain and piracy: Once Upon a Time and my epiphany http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/public-domain-and-piracy-once-upon-a-time-and-my-epiphany/ http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/public-domain-and-piracy-once-upon-a-time-and-my-epiphany/#comments Tue, 20 Nov 2012 16:15:00 +0000 Chris Meadows http://www.teleread.com/?p=74791 When I was visiting relatives over the weekend, I had a fairly potent reminder of the enduring power of the public domain—and I finally succumbed to the inevitable realization, that in some cases, piracy is just too much work. On Saturday night of our stay, it turned out we didn’t have time to watch Marvel’s [...]

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