Online TV/Music
27 February 2013
Pirate Bay Moves From Sweden to Norway, Spain New York Times
Embattled file-sharing site The Pirate Bay is looking for safe havens in Norway and Spain after its Swedish host came under legal pressure to shut it down.
US internet 'six strikes' anti-piracy campaign begins BBC News
A "six-strikes" campaign to combat internet piracy has begun in the US. Five of the country's leading ISPs are taking part in the copyright Alert System, which they say is designed to educate rather than punish users.
Music Industry Records First Revenue Increase Since 1999 New York Times
The music industry, the first media business to be consumed by the digital revolution, said Tuesday that its global sales had risen last year for the first year since 1999, suggesting that a long-sought recovery might have finally begun.
22 February 2013
Google fails to curb music piracy The Australian
Google's revamping of its search formula last year failed so far to live up to its promise of discouraging consumers from visiting illegal music websites, an industry group says.
14 February 2013
Intel to Launch Web TV Service This Year Wall Street Journal
Intel Corp. confirmed plans to offer a paid Internet video service and accompanying set-top box, an unusual gamble for a chip maker that has rarely marketed directly to consumers.
10 February 2013
Reappearing on YouTube: Illegal Movie Uploads Wall Street Journal
Google Inc.'s YouTube has a familiar problem: Plenty of illegally uploaded movies are finding their way onto the website.
06 February 2013
Telstra tests P2P throttling, deep packet inspection ZDNet
Telstra will trial deep packet inspection and slow down peer-to-peer (P2P) traffic over its network for a select number of ADSL customers in Victoria, the telco has confirmed today.
03 February 2013
The referee's a faker: Digital piracy costs the global economy more than $75 billion per annum NetNames Blog
... Whilst it didn't go into detail about what the company was trying to do, a simple internet search can tell you exactly. Pick any football match, not even one that has already been shown live, and type the game into a Google search. The results will on the whole be divided into two categories; the first will be online betting companies, all trying to win your money with an overwhelming number of betting options (next scorer, next corner, next expletive aimed at the referee), the other will be offers to watch the game live online. It is this second category that causes massive headaches for companies like Sky Sports.
31 January 2013
First music pirate nailed under new NZ copyright law National Business Review
The Copyright Tribunal has made its first decision under the new file sharing law, siding with the record industry.
30 January 2013
Playing Whac-a-Mole With Piracy Sites New York Times
Over the years, the fight against online piracy has led to countless lawsuits by media companies and to escalating levels of law enforcement, all with mixed results.
29 January 2013
As Music Streaming Grows, Royalties Slow to a Trickle New York Times
Like plenty of music fans, Sam Broe jumped at the chance to join Spotify two summers ago, and he hasn't looked back.
Caribbean Nation Gets an International Go-Ahead to Break U.S. Copyright Laws New York Times
A long-simmering trade conflict between the United States and Antigua and Barbuda appears to be boiling over.
U.S. warns Antigua against "government-authorised piracy" Reuters
The United States warned Antigua and Barbuda on Monday not to retaliate against U.S. restrictions on Internet gambling by suspending American copyrights or patents, a move it said would authorize the "theft" of intellectual property like movies and music.
26 January 2013
Antigua applies for permission to run 'pirate' website BBC News
Antigua is seeking permission to run a website that sells music, movies and software - but ignores copyright law.
24 January 2013
Myspace's newest problem: Credibility Washington Post
Strapped for cash and fighting for relevance, the relaunched Myspace already has enough problems. But it looks like the company and its music-focused revamp have another, potentially bigger issue: credibility.
22 January 2013
The Move Online Is Hurting Europe's Music Retailers New York Times
Across Europe, music is once again fueling protests, strikes and sit-ins. In a twist on the 1960s, it is the music sellers, rather than the listeners, who are up in arms.
18 January 2013
Deloitte report finds content still key, despite new viewing technology The Australian
A report by Deloitte has challenged the perception that new TV viewing services will pose a threat to television broadcasters, arguing they will lift the networks more than competing services like Google TV.
02 January 2013
Digital sales break £1bn barrier in UK BBC News
More than £1bn was spent on downloaded films, music and games in 2012, the highest annual total.
Curbing Content Theft by Harry Khanna Columbia Science and Technology Law Review
We are spoiled. Those of us who have grown up with the internet are accustomed to instant gratification of information. How many feet are in a 3 meters? Google it. How old is Justice Thomas? Ask Siri. What's the name of the song that's playing right now? There's an app for that. But this expectation of instant gratification breaks down when it comes to copyrighted content, specifically television and movies. And the unwillingness of the studios, cable networks, and content providers to cater to this expectation often drives a person to steal the content when they would have willingly paid for it. This problem is particularly acute for people who use operating systems like GNU/Linux. For example, a colleague of mine is a fan of a TV show named Workaholics which airs on Comedy Central. He runs a distribution of GNU/Linux, and once asked me how he could watch old episodes for this show, and it struck me that there really is no good way.
28 December 2012
Golden Eye porn producer seeks to widen piracy blitz BBC News
A pornographic film-maker has revealed plans to chase more internet users for compensation for pirating others' adult movies.
21 December 2012
Pirate Bay proxy gets shut down after music industry legal threat BBC News
A proxy service allowing access to banned piracy website The Pirate Bay has been shut down after legal threats from the music industry.
18 December 2012
Tor: An Anonymous, And Controversial, Way to Web-Surf Wall Street Journal
For more than four years, William Weber has helped run a free service called Tor that makes Web surfing anonymous for anyone.
iiNet blames data retention, studio intransigence for ditching piracy trials ZDNet
iiNet, Australia's third largest internet service provider, has said that rights holder intransigence in negotiations and the requirement for ISPs to hold more customer data as the reasons for why it will not participate in an infringement notice scheme.
12 December 2012
YouTube to Power New Media Businesses of the Future? Maybe. All Things D
Life is good at YouTube. It's already the largest video network globally and the second largest search engine -- and with over half of content marketers migrating an increasing share of their $40b budgets to video in 2013, YouTube is now uniquely positioned to become the go-to platform for building sustainable media businesses of the future. But it's not in the bag just yet -- this is at least the fourth major social platform that has tried to capture brand mindshare in the last few years.
11 December 2012
UK Pirate Party threatened with legal action over Pirate Bay proxy BBC News
The UK's music industry body is set to take the Pirate Party UK to court in a dispute over offering access to banned site The Pirate Bay.
