Dan Frommer:

A Bernstein survey says 35% of Web video watchers might dump their cable TV provider in favor of online video within 5 years. That's not too alarming by itself, says Bernstein's Jeff Lindsay -- that's in line with the amount of people who typically say they'd cut the cord because of price.

More interesting: Web video watchers don't want to dump cable because it's too expensive. Instead, mostly because of content.

Paul Kedrosky:

There have been a number of articles lately about people cutting costs by cancelling/cutting cable TV service.

Christopher Lawton:

The cable-cutting trend isn't just being driven by pinched personal budgets.

Flynn23:

All of this 'chaos' in the economy is really the result of a transition to an information-based economy.

John Gapper, for FT, in 2007:

Microsoft is trying to differentiate itself from Google by portraying itself as more sympathetic to copyright holders than Google.

Decius, from 2007:

Ultimately, content is not king, and filters are not king. Bandwidth, and the money that funds it, is king. There will be as many social frameworks as there are societies. There will be many content producers, a small number of which will make money. But the market will only sustain a few free video hosting systems. It's not about production cost or end user value. It's about marginal cost. You can copy a floppy but you can't copy a server.