- Netflix Looking to Tinker with Pricing Tiers, More Personalized Accounts
VidBlog, Steve Smith - Wednesday, April 20, 2011
I know people who share single Netflix accounts across households, even states. One teenager told me recently that her longtime ex-boyfriend and members of his family still use her mother ...
- 'You Could Lose Your Booty': YouTube Issues Copyright Cartoon
VidBlog, Steve Smith - Friday, April 15, 2011
How serious is Google/YouTube about hosting pirated content? Hard to say given the hours and hours of material that finds its way onto the system. But YouTube surely needs ...
- Digital Locker Service Seeks Dismissal Of MPAA's Lawsuit
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Thursday, April 7, 2011
Enabling Web users to store music and movies in digital lockers doesn't violate copyright law, even if users upload pirated material to the lockers, Hotfile argues in new court pap ...
- Direct-to-Torrent: Paramount Releasing 'The Tunnel' over BitTorrent
VidBlog, Steve Smith - Friday, March 18, 2011
If you can't beat 'em, feed 'em. After years of complaining, lobbying and lawyering about online piracy of film properties, Hollywood is starting to experiment with alternative tactics. In ...
- Keep It Cheap, Stupid: Psychology of the Pirate
VidBlog, Steve Smith - Wednesday, February 16, 2011
Despite the proliferation of paid media models, online piracy of copyrighted materials will continue, according to a new report from PwC. In its survey of 202 people who admit ...
- MPAA Charges Digital Storage Site With Encouraging Piracy
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, February 9, 2011
After successfully suing peer-to-peer companies like Napster, Grokster and IsoHunt, the entertainment industry is turning its attention to digital storage sites. The Motion Picture Association of America filed a copyrig ...
- Report: Tracking 'Digital Piracy' Sites
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, January 11, 2011
So-called "digital piracy" sites generate more than 53 billion visits a year, with three such sites -- rapidshare.com, megavideo.com and megaupload.com -- accounting for almost half of those visits, accordi ...
- Senate Panel Passes Anti-Piracy Bill
Around the Net In Online Marketing, Gavin O'Malley - Thursday, November 18, 2010
A Senate panel just passed a bill giving U.S. agencies and officials new powers to battle foreign websites that sell counterfeit goods, pirated music, movies and books. "The bill, whi ...
- Anti-Piracy Proposal Pits Free Speech Advocates Against Newspaper Association of America
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Thursday, November 18, 2010
A Senate committee this week unanimously approved a troubling anti-piracy law that would enable the federal authorities to seek court orders directing Internet service providers and domain registrars to sh ...
- Free Network Streams, Anyone?
Around the Net In Online Marketing, Gavin O'Malley - Friday, November 5, 2010
Pssss... Interested in free, live streams of top network fare, delivered directly to your iPad? Then head over to FilmOn.com, where,
MediaMemo reports, you can get streams of sever ...
- Mintel: ISPs At Loss To Combat Internet Piracy
Marketing Daily, Aaron Baar - Thursday, October 14, 2010
"One sixth of the Internet-at-home population isn't paying for it," Billy Hulkower, senior analyst at Mintel, tells Marketing Daily. He added that home Internet penetration barely moved between 2006 a ...
- Anti-Piracy Law Stalls After Opposition Grows
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Thursday, September 30, 2010
A controversial anti-piracy law that would have allowed the federal authorities to effectively shutter certain sites seems to be stalled until at least after the midterm elections. ...
- TagMan Speeds Web-Page Load Times, Protects Privacy
Online Media Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Friday, May 7, 2010
TagMan has developed a method to speed Web page load times and secure content by moving ad tags and tracking pixels from Web pages to servers. The company, which creat ...
- When Piracy Really Takes Over, Movie Studios May Have To Abandon Ship
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Friday, April 2, 2010
Media piracy is a bad problem in Spain for U.S.-based movie studios. Under Spanish law, piracy is only illegal if done for profit. Thus, many Spanish consumers feel taking fr ...
- Warner Bros. Seeking Piracy Spies
Around the Net In Online Marketing, Gavin O'Malley - Monday, March 29, 2010
In its latest effort to battle content thieves, the UK branch of Warner Bros. is hiring "IT literate" students to spy on the so-called "torrenting world." "During the 12 mon ...
- RIAA Stands Firm On High Damages For File-Sharing
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Should Web users who share music for free have to face the same potential liability as those who sell pirated music? The record labels say the answer is yes. ...
- Alleged Peer-To-Peer Pirate Rejects Settlement Offer In File-Sharing Case
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, January 27, 2010
The record labels and peer-to-peer file sharing service user Jammie Thomas-Rasset are gearing up to court for what will be a third file-sharing trial. On Wednesday, Thomas-Rasset rejected an off ...
- Justin.tv Compared To Napster At Congressional Hearing
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Justin.tv CEO Michael Seibel was grilled by members of the House Judiciary Committee this morning about what his site was doing to combat piracy. Seibel told Congress that the si ...
- Record Company Sues Google And Microsoft For Allegedly Allowing Access To File-Sharing Service
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, December 9, 2009
The music company Blues Destiny Records has sued Google and Microsoft for copyright infringement for allegedly returning results that allow users to find pirated music hosted by the file-sharing servi ...
- One Strike, We're Out: Ohio Town's Surprising Reaction To Alleged Piracy
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Hollywood executives have made a lot of noise about wanting ISPs to implement "three strike" policies for online piracy, but haven't made much headway with network providers. Now, however, ...
- Murdoch Rages Against The Machine, Calls Search Giants 'Kleptos'
SearchBlog, Laurie Sullivan - Monday, November 9, 2009
In an interview with Sky News Australia, News Corp Chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch accuses Google, Microsoft, Ask.com and others of stealing content, and discusses his plans to stop t ...
- Judge To BlueBeat: You Can't Do That
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Friday, November 6, 2009
Music fans often lament that Apple Corps. has so far refused to allow Beatles songs to be sold as digital downloads. So when BlueBeat.com started offering downloads of Beatles trac ...
- Hollywood Asks FCC To Back Three-Strikes Piracy Plan
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Entertainment companies have been saying for a while that they'd like to see Internet service providers deal with piracy by developing "three strike" plans that could result in disconnecting copyrig ...
- Content Wants to Be Pirated
OMMA Magazine, kyle , Daisy Whitney - Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Television executives, welcome to the rathole otherwise known as the fight against piracy. Now it's your turn to fight an uphill battle, one that the music industry has waged f ...
