Google Sees the Future,And It's in Kansas City

摘要

Of all the media industries dragged kicking and screaming into the brave new digital world-news, music, publishing-Hollywood has held up comparatively well. Although physical sales of DVDs and Blu-ray are falling, no single Web company dominates the online video realm, and consumers mostly still get their programming via pricey cable bundles. Poky Internet speeds-the U.S. average of about 5 megabits per second ranks 26th globally-means that pirates can't swap bulky video files with the same insouciant ease as they do MP3s.