As I posted in September, Netflix faces competition when it comes to buying the licenses to stream content and it also must contend with bandwidth suppliers who charge customers more money when they exceed their monthly bandwidth allotment.
On February 15th Vyacheslav Lebedev, chairman of Russia's Supreme Court, suggested reviving an old Soviet practice under which a maximum sentence for a person charged with different crimes should not exceed the sentence attached to the most serious charge: in Mr Khodorkovsky's case, nine years.