Interim Order on Download For Later
The Download For Later queue has exceeded its original purpose. This hearing was convened to establish the queue's current status.
HEARING TRANSCRIPT Matter: Status of Download For Later Queue Convened by: Office of Personal Media Administration Presiding: This Office
OFFICE: The queue was established to hold media items for offline consumption during periods without network access. Is that characterization accurate?
RECORD: Yes. The queue was established in 2018 for use during commutes.
OFFICE: The commute ended in March 2020.
RECORD: That is correct.
OFFICE: The queue was not cleared at that time.
RECORD: It was not. Items were added.
OFFICE: Items were added after the purpose for which the queue was created no longer applied.
RECORD: The holder maintains that the items were added for potential future use during travel.
OFFICE: Travel that has not occurred.
RECORD: Travel that has not occurred as of the date of this hearing.
OFFICE: The queue currently contains how many items?
RECORD: Forty-one. Thirty-seven audio items and four video items. The oldest item was added in November 2018.
OFFICE: The oldest item has been in the queue for approximately two and a half years.
RECORD: Approximately.
OFFICE: It has not been listened to.
RECORD: It has not.
OFFICE: The queue is now a decision about the queue.
RECORD: The holder acknowledges that characterization.
OFFICE: An item in Download For Later makes a claim: that this item will be listened to, in a specific context, at a future time. Each unplayed item is a pending claim. The queue contains forty-one pending claims.
RECORD: That formulation has not previously been applied to this situation.
OFFICE: The formulation applies regardless of whether it has been previously applied.
OFFICE: This office finds the queue in a state of administrative suspension. Items were added. The purpose shifted. The items remained. The queue now requires a decision about itself before it can serve any original purpose.
OFFICE: The hearing is adjourned. A follow-up session will be scheduled when the holder is ready to address the forty-one items individually.
RECORD: No date has been set for that session.
OFFICE: The record reflects that.