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Ernie the Attorney covers the JumpTV case. So does Robert Shaw:

Technology Neutral Regulation?: Webcasters Demand TV Rights. JumpTV.com claims that Canadian law allows it to webcast network TV signals. But the broadcasters' lobbying group says the government shouldn't let that happen. Anyone remember this started with the shutdown by a U.S. judge in 1999 of the now defunct iCraveTV.com, a Canadian company that began streaming television shows over the Internet?

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Patience, Grasshopper

In 1997, while working for The Associated Press, I sat in on an interview with then-CEO of Compaq Eckhard Pfeiffer. Most of the interview was forgettable, but one thing sticks out: he had to leave to go a conference where he was speaking on digital convergence — you know, where the PC and the TV become one and the same beast.

The term had been bandied about for years before that, and I remember thinking, "Yeah. Right."

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