This story doesn't add up. That one company that reported the other ones could simply have set its prices slightly below the competition's fixed prices and grabbed all market share, hence making huge profits and destroying the cartel.

The economig logic behind collusion laws is completely bogus, it's really just a simple political racket.

Most likely these 9 "guilty" companies didn't play the political game well enough. This game was won by Micron's political team and by european bureaucrats. Well played.

In France, the 'Free' ISP provides a freebox (modem) that can already do that, ie stream content from the computer to the TV. The feature is based on VLC and works with Windows, Linux or MacOS. More information here (in French, but with screenshots).

Of course, that's just one more feature of the free service, on top of TV (100 basic channels + channels you can subscribe to), phone (using VoIP, calls are free to a lot of countries), and internet (ADSL 1 mbit upstream, up to 20 mbits downstream), oh and video on demand too (no TV shows so far, only movies, costing from 2 to 5 euros). All that for 30 euros a month.

So why should I care about Viiv?