But buried at the end was a provision which would have changed the first-sale doctrine so Americans would not be permitted to rent movies from video stores like Blockbuster without the permission of movie studios, who said they would grant such permission only at greatly inflated prices.
"There seems to a never-ending supply of agents, producers and studios that have traditional television concepts that they're breaking into webisodes firstso that they can demonstrate proof of concepts before approaching the networks, " says Keith Richman, president of video site Break.com.