Vuze Petitions FCC To Restrict Traffic Throttling - Via Slashdot: Your Rights Online : mrspin writes "Vuze, an online video application that uses the peer-to-peer protocol BitTorrent, has petitioned the U.S. Federal Communications Commission to restrict Internet traffic throttling by Internet Service Providers (ISPs). Vuze has been keenly aware of Comcast and the "bandwidth shaping" issue. read more... »
TVLinks Owner Deserved to be Arrested: " There I said it! I know lots of people won’t agree with me and think the owner of TV-Links.co.uk is some sort of martyr who is fighting our cause against the big copyright Mongols but that is bullshit.
What is TVLinks & What Happened?
For those of you that don’t know TV-Links.co.uk is a site that was full of links to pirated TV shows on sites like YouTube, MySpace Video, DailyMotion etc.
Millions of people flocked to TVLinks each month to watch these pirated shows and can you blame them? Content owners have put so many barriers between people and the videos they want to watch: DRM, high DVD prices, not putting shows online… the list goes on. read more... »
Schedules Direct - Replacement for zap2it's free TV listing service: Editor: Now that Zap2it has halted their free TV listing service, folks are looking for a new source of TV listings for the open-source PVRs. This site is run by the folks who gave you MythTV and are anon-profit trying to keep the costs low. read more... »
NBC Will Not Renew ITunes Contract - New York Times: NBC Universal, unable to come to an agreement with Apple on pricing, has decided not to renew its contract to sell digital downloads of television shows on iTunes.
The media conglomerate — which is the No. 1 supplier of digital video to Apple’s online store, accounting for about 40 percent of downloads — notified Apple of its decision late yesterday, according to a person familiar with the matter who asked for anonymity because negotiations between the companies are confidential. read more... »
Paramount: DRM may not (at least right now) please consumers: ASPEN, Colo.--Paramount would seem like an entertainment company that's a huge fan of digital rights management: it sells copyright-protected movies through iTunes, it's a backer of HD DVD, and it sued 2600 Magazine over the posting of DVD-descrambling code.
But even Paramount has mixed feelings about the current state of digital rights management, or DRM. read more... »
Yahoo! Boosting Video Services | Flickr To Get Video: "Yahoo! has just unveiled plans to cement its online video credentials with a service aimed at tackling the likes of the ubiquitous YouTube.
Yahoo’s general manager for video, Mike Folgner, has stated that music videos, movie trailers, television shows and sports highlights are among the features that will be available on the new site. read more... »
NBC Universal Fight For Network Filters To Stop Copyright Infringement: "Last month, NBC Universal filed comments in the FCC’s
proceeding on ‘Broadband Industry Practices.’
NBC asked that the FCC require that ISPs institute ‘bandwidth
management tools’, code for network filters, to try to stop the
Internet infringing copyrights. read more... »
YouTube Vlogging Down 19% | Blip.tv & Indie Sites Skyrocket: More vloggers are setting up their own video blogs on independent blogging platforms, causing an overall decrease in the percentage of vlogs on YouTube, according to a quarterly Mefeedia survey.
The number of independent vlogsites are up a total of 7% this quarter. The popular vlogging platform Blip.tv seems to have benefited the most from this shift, registering a 17% rise in just three months and now hosting 56% more vloggers than YouTube. read more... »
Blinkx.com Leads Video Search | 14 Million Hours of Content Indexed: "Blinkx already claims to be the world’s largest video search engine, but yesterday it reached new heights - 14,000,000 hours of searchable video, audio, viral and TV content.
The company, which floated on the London Stock Exchange in May, also claims to have over 200 media partnerships. One of the newest is with RealNetworks, where Blinkx provides the video search feature in the new RealPlayer 11. read more... »
BBC NEWS | Technology | BBC online video service launches: "The BBC's flagship online TV service is being launched, offering viewers the chance to download their favourite programmes from the last seven days.
For director general Mark Thompson, the launch of iPlayer is as big a milestone as the arrival of colour TV.
But others have questioned how technically reliable it will be and whether it is late to a crowded market.
At launch, a fixed number of people will be able to sign up, with the numbers increasing throughout the year. read more... »