Companies from the life sciences, manufacturing, telecom, and online industries also participated.
Extortionists often prefer to target online industries, such as pornography and gambling, that occupy a gray area, and may be reluctant to seek help from law enforcement.
Online industries look for new trends and respond by incorporating social networking features, such as personal profiles, into sites such as YouTube.
2. The online industries, and quite a few readers, took issue with my willingness to hold intermediaries – search engines, sharing services – accountable for helping police what passes through their sites.
As our special report explains, online gambling remains relatively small (just over $25 billion in 2009), but, as with so many online industries, it is hugely disruptive to both business and policy.
But seen from the trenches of the movie, television, music, publishing and online industries, AOL Time Warner looks remarkably similar to the old Time Warner -- with a big new Internet division.
The online industry is not a monolith.
Pornography, for example, is the biggest online industry.
They would rather the online industry tried harder to regulate itself.
Just like his dealings with assorted labels, his relationship with the online industry was spiky.
None of this bodes well for the online industry; not the businesses nor the consumers.
