RadiumOne "G" gets off too easily, net neutrality threatened?
发布时间 2014-04-26 19:27:51 来源
摘要
The CEO of VC-backed ad startup RadiumOne got off too easily on domestic battery charges. Gurbaksh Chahal aka "G" faced 45 felony charges after a video surfaced of him assaulting his girlfriend -- 117 times over 30 minutes. But, he pleaded to 2 lesser misdemeanor charges. The company is widely thought to be preparing an IPO later this year. Should investors back away?
In legal news, the FCC's next attempt at writing net neutrality rules will likely include a "fast lane" to allow ISPs to charge Netflix, Disney, and others extra for better speeds. Recode's Amy Schatz tells us, while the FCC commissioner was trying not to scare open internet advocates and tech businesses, this move still whipped everyone into a frenzy.
Aereo hits the Supreme Court, Google may add wifi to its rapidly expanding fiber offering, and HBO's back catalogue will now be available to non-subscribers on Amazon Prime.
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Farhad Manjoo of the New York Times, Amy Schatz of Re/code, and long-time TWIST friend Tyler Crowley join us.
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Highlights:
2:40 - JC: RadiumOne CEO Gurbaksh Chahal intro.
What happens when something like this happens and they' don't get removed?
5:35 - JC: activists like Anil Dash, etc. They've started a #dropradium movement. Condé Nast is now being lobbied. Tyler?
6:05 - TC: It leaves you speechless. A black eye on tech. We all feel bad whenever something like this happens.
6:50 - JC: Amy, thoughts around this?
7:20 - AS: Either that, or you're getting more attention. Maybe they've been there the entire time. If I were an investor or a CEO, I'd be questioning...if he owns the company and can do the IPO and see what happens.
9:47 - FM: You have, in tech companies, one-owner companies that make them untouchable. I think this is the first time i've heard of this company. Generally you have more of these that are going public, and you can't get rid of them if they do something terrible.
12:00 - Net Neutrality intro
14:20 - JC: Will this make it to the consumer?
14:32 - AS: For consumers already, this has been nothing. Hasn't affected them.
15:18 - FM: Long term solution = faster internet. If we had gigabit lines, the fact that one portion was faster wouldn't matter.
17:35 - ShareFile ad read
18:50 - JC: HBO Back Catalog intro
24:40 - JC: Will a tech company buy AMC or HBO?
25:33 - Mandrill ad read
27:00 - JC: Aereo Intro
29:30 - JC: Amy, what's the right legal answer?
29:44 - AS: SCOTUS seems to think that it's pretty much a cable service, which does not bode well for Aereo.
30:33 - TC: Seems like IP loophole product.
35:24 - JC: Can SCOTUS give them the right decision?
35:30 - AS: It doesn't matter whether they get it or not. Some of them get it. Roku, cloud computing. Some are very, very old. Others are middle-aged and get it to a certain extent.
39:15 - Bing Launch of Week Intro
41:17 - TC: Performance art terrorism
41:30 - 3D printed circuit board intro
46:17 - Google Fiber intro
47:52 - FM: they need to come up with a 3rd pipe into home. Imprinted all over it, that they can control. Balloons, Facebook's planes, all that stuff.
48:29 - AS: The FCC would be really grateful to have another competitor in the wire market. FTC might not be happy -- privacy issues. Targeting mobile ads to consumers, etc. That could be a concern in the future
52:00 - JC: possible with beacon technology, that they'd show me more disney ads. How far is this going?
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