Garland on ISP deal

QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The ISPs want to cooperate with Hollywood because the carriers recognize that their own growth depends in part on bundled content strategies. They don’t want to be just utilities providing Internet access, but premium content distributors as well… The challenge is that consumers will continue to do whatever they wish on the Internet, and find clever ways to not attract the attention of the content companies or ISPs. It will never end.”—BigChampagne’s Eric Garland on the major ISPs’ agreeing to warn and penalize their copyright-infringing customers, in the N.Y. Times. See our story here. (7/8a)