• Laws around video are outdated, and need to be revised in the age of Netflix, Hulu and YouTube.
• Hearing is happening while FCC has opened up an antitrust investigation against cable companies, looking to determine whether they are using data caps to steer customers towards their own video offerings and away from those that they don't control.

From the article:

If there’s one thing everyone can agree on about today’s communications laws, it's that they’re woefully out of date. Crafted years before Netflix, Google or Apple offered video programming on the Internet, the laws regulating cable and satellite TV and TV broadcasting say nothing about their new competitors. Now, in addition to the dispute between pay TV providers and broadcasters over carriage deals, there are emerging issues for online video providers like Netflix that depend on Internet service providers like the cable systems for their distribution. During the fut...