Survey finds TV is major casualty of Net surfing
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Internet users are spending less time watching TV and VCR programs to pursue their cyberspace interests, a recent survey announced. Almost 65% of Internet users said they had reduced TV viewing, according to a study of 500 users by research company Strategis Group. Other information from the Jun 1998 report listed 48% of its participants as scaling back reading and 29% sleeping less. The information apparently reinforces a 1997 poll by research firm Cyber Dialogue, which reported a 22% cutback in long-distance phone calls as well as a 16% reduction in newspaper and magazine reading, plus less TV watching. Analysts and TV executives are beginning to interpret the new crossover trend. Some analysts say the Internet has emerged as a mainstream medium, while others believe the technology shift may take years to study. NBC hopes to capitalize by using its TV network and Web site to one another.
Publication Name: The New York Times
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0362-4331
Year: 1998
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Courts beginning to make order on frontiers of cyberspace
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California is asserting its presence in online jurisdiction, which has sparked debate between legal scholars and Internet discussion groups. A Court of Appeal of California, Second Appellate District, judged ruled in August 1997 that state courts may establish jurisdiction in regard to E-mail and telephone transactions. Companies based outside of California previously argued that cyberspace holds no boundaries, even when California parties conducted mostly e-mail and telephone transactions. Legal scholars believe Judge Arthur Gilbert's opinion basically makes e-mail consistent with telephone or paper-mail transactions. Other jurisdiction questions are about separate parts of the Internet, which are interoperable in more than one state. Government taxation and regulation of Internet businesses will provide the ultimate answers.
Publication Name: The New York Times
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0362-4331
Year: 1997
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Record label to distribute music online
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Universal Music has partnered with Intertrust Technologies Corp. to sell music via downloadable files over the Internet. The Universal wants to have its Web cash registers in place for next Christmas. The Recording Industry Association of America, of which Universal is a member, has been developing a standard, the Secure Digital Music Initiative, to support the online sale of music in a file format that protects the music owner's copyright. MP3, widely used on the Internet, does not offer such security. Intertrust's Digibox software allows purchasers to make copies of audio files. But the files are encoded so that any would-be listener must pay to play.
Publication Name: The New York Times
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0362-4331
Year: 1999
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