http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/16/technology/daily-report-video-is-everywhere-and-regulators-have-noticed.html 2016-09-15 17:54:17 Daily Report: Video Is Everywhere and Regulators Have Noticed As company after company explains its connection to internet video, officials want Europe to be viewed as one giant audience. === I screen, you screen, we all live on video screens. Companies and governments keep taking notice, and are scrambling to catch up with the ways we and video are changing each other. Katie Benner These include live streams of multiple sports events, as well as news programs. It’s another reminder that, in an era where everything can be recorded or watched on demand, there is a curious It is quite a step from Twitter’s original purpose, a 140-character “microblogging” service, when it came out in 2006. A way for people to muse about themselves has evolved into a way to comment and share information about events almost as they happen, to participate in hashtag games that appear out of nowhere and now to look at video in real time. If, as they say, the internet collapses both time and space, Twitter is trying to address the remaining value in time: knowing about things in the moment they are going on. Elsewhere, Mark Scott Video on demand from the likes of the BBC or Netflix, even premium Hollywood movies, may become readily available to 500 million European Union residents, regardless of what country they are in. It could take two years or more for this to become law, but if it happens it will be interesting to see how the big video services start to look at an audience that large and generally wealthy as a single unit. There is no denying that the demand is there. For years, video What the E.U. is doing, in this rare case, is acknowledging a reality about how the world works that business still denies.