[140116] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: How do you put a TV station on the Mbone?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Bonomi)
Mon May 2 14:40:15 2011
Date: Mon, 2 May 2011 13:40:16 -0500 (CDT)
From: Robert Bonomi <bonomi@mail.r-bonomi.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <4DBEBB96.3030404@gmail.com>
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> Date: Mon, 02 May 2011 10:11:34 -0400
> From: David Sparro <dsparro@gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: How do you put a TV station on the Mbone?
>
> On 4/29/2011 8:57 PM, Robert Bonomi wrote:
> > Those royalties are based on the_actual_number_ of persons
> > tuning in to each such work. No 'averaging', no 'estimating', nothing
> > based on 'ratings', or other 'sampling techniques -- you have to count
> > the_actual_number_ of people tuned in. It gets messy, but you have to
> > have 'auditable' records of when each person 'tuned in', and when they
> > 'tuned out'. One_has_ to be able to detect the latter condition under
> > all possible circumstances.
>
> Really?
Yeah, _really_. That is what the law says.
> How do they detect the number of people that were gathered
> around my screen while I was watching?
> Does that mean I'll be able to get a refund (pro-rated of course) for
> falling asleep during UFC 129 this weekend?
There is an 'assumption' built into the applicable implementation rules
issued by the government that 'one active display device' == 'one viewer'.
How close that assumption is to 'objective reality' is irrelevant to
the legalities involved in calculating royalties due.
