mr. heimann has sieve e nmpn ha last decade and has seen the company grow. he was the general council of webvan an internet based grocery deliver service. bill mcgevran is a professor in university of law in minnesota. before joining the u, he was a resident fellow at harvard's berkman internet for internet and society and a litigator in boston. professor mcgevern received his ba from nyu. finally i should add that he was a staffer for senator shumer, mark rode enburg, he chairs the american bar association committee on privacy and information protection, and has edited several privacy law textbooks prior to founding epic that is again, electric privacy information center, he was council to senator leahy where he advised the senator on the act we are considering today. he received his jd from stanford law school. christopher wolfe is the director of the privacy and information practice here in washington. and he also the founder and cochair of the future of privacy forum. he was the editor and lead author of the practicing law institutes first treatis on pri

mr. heimann, there's no company that better shows promise in streaming than netflix. today 90% of netflix 24 million subscribers have streaming subscriptions, and 40% have dvd sub is descriptions and that number is dropping. in fact, if you look at the about us netflix, there's only one mention of dvd. there's a question whether the streaming videos are covered by the vppa. it was suggested that it would be helpful to change language in the vppa to confirm that it does. would netflix support doing that? >> mr. franken, netflix would probably not -- we would not support that. i think the issue for us is really one of what is video in the future and how do you think about that in the internet age. video embedded into news stories, is that a news story or is that streaming video? music videos, is that music or is that videos, books. i recently read a book and it has a texting powerpoint presentation, you can imagine that in the future books will integrate video. is that covered? so extending the video protection privacy act into the internet raises a host of issues and i