Jim Pickrell, President, Brand X

On March 29, 2005, the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in the case of Brand X v. FCC, in which Brand X, a Santa Monica, California-based Internet service provider was seeking to have upheld a 2000 decision from the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals that cable modem service was a "telecom service," subject to various regulations, and not an "information service," as determined by the Federal Communications Commission, in which case it would not be so subject.

Jim Pickrell is the President of Brand X. He spoke today by SightSpeed videoconferencing software with Etopia Media's Entertainment Technology World about the issues raised in this case and about what he sees as the looming threat of a cable/teleco duopoly in the provision of Internet access that would stifle competition and penalize Internet users.

You can watch and listen to that conversation with Brand X President Jim Pickrell, in its entirety, by clicking here.

You can also listen to similar comments on these subjects by Brand X President Jim Pickrell, in an earlier (April 4, 2005) audio interview, by clicking here.

To access another article about the Brand X v. FCC case, click on its title, "Justices Take Up Future of Net Access".

To watch and listen to an endorsement of the EZonics webcam and SightSpeed Messenger videoconferencing software used to produce this interview, click here.

The capture of audio and video from the EZonics-SightSpeed-enabled video conference, and the conversion of the AVI file thus generated into the Windows Media Video file linked to in this article was made possible by Camtasia Studio, a product of TechSmith.