NBC chairman, Amazon, Steve Jobs on DRM -- and John Chambers' Cisco...

On a recent NPR program, the topic centered on the pronouncements of the new NBC CEO on "upstarts" like YouTube...threatening the traditional business/distribution model of video/programming, Amazon.com's tie up with Tivo and Apple CEO Steve Jobs' exhortation that music be sold without its usual DRM protection.

What was in common was this issue of music/video/art and its freeform (and vast) distribution, as pioneered and popularised by Napster in the music world...and most recently by YouTube where copyright issues just seem to have been thrown by the wayside...!

But another news, related in some ways, was Cisco's earnings boost, spearheaded by what Chambers described as the "killer app," video services!

A big part of the Net capacity consumption is the growth of video, which Chambers called the "killer application" on a conference call with analysts Tuesday.