In other words, a virtual factory, virtual warehouse and virtual distributor, with the fee depending on the level of involvement.
The company acts as the virtual distributor of 504 hours of live and recorded streaming-media porn every day for a rogue's gallery of porn producers, including Penthouse, Vivid, Europe's Private Media Group and porn queen Jenna Jameson.
Mr. Roberts said he continued voicing his concerns about Archway's accounting to Mr. Multer, especially after he discovered a series of "virtual" sales from large distributors for products that never shipped — or, in some cases, for cookies that weren't even being offered for sale.
NBC Universals deal with the NFL also allows it to extend streaming rights to cable, satellite and telecom partners, as well as virtual multichannel video programming distributors.
In citing that number, comScore was specifically looking at what it called "pure-play" vMVPDs (virtual multichannel video programming distributors) – a variation on a fancy industry term that refers to live TV services like Sling TV.
Meanwhile, the newly expanded list of virtual MVPDs (multi-channel video program distributors) fix their initial flaws, offer consumers real competitive choice, and hasten consumer cord-cutting even further.
While even the largest brick-and-mortar megastores like Tower and Virgin are squeezed by space constraints and can stock, at most, 40,000 titles, online retailers, buying directly from distributors, can get their virtual hands on almost 200,000 titles without having to warehouse a single compact disc.
Mr. Blum is not retreating from his initial plan of being a virtual retailer, owning no inventory and relying on distributors to hold and ship goods directly to its customers.
Devised through negotiations between the national theater owners group and the major studios, these Virtual Print Fee agreements entail per-movie payments from distributors for running their movies.
Wine distributors don't like the fact that Virtual Vineyards and other Web-based firms have muscled in on the wholesalers' turf by shipping wine directly to consumers.
