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Hastings: Linear TV will disappear completely in 10 to 20 years
“Linear TV, 1020 years from now, will disappear. It will be, once in a while, you'll see it in a hotel, like where you see a fixed-line phone, but other than that, you know, you're not gonna see it, and everyone around the world will be doing internet video as …”
Hastings: Netflix will operate with fewer rules as it grows
“And so that's when I vowed that in starting another company, that at least we wouldn't make that mistake. That as we grew, we would try to have less rules, not more rules.”
Hastings: Netflix will not buy a telecom company
“So do we need to buy a telco? No, because we're not trying to, you know, we work with over 500 ISPs around the world. Ok, so just like Facebook, or Google, or anyone, or an internet company, the last thing, I mean, you know, how well is Google Fiber worked out…”