Did you miss Eminem’s hit movie “8 Mile”? You’re in luck: Many of its rap battles and other major scenes are available for viewing on YouTube, the video-sharing Web site owned by Google. Indeed, until recently, the entire film was there, broken up into 12 nine-minute chunks to get around YouTube’s ban on longer clips. [...]

Under the deal, the Chinese repertoire from EMI’s Typhoon Music will be made available for streaming, free of charge, to all users of Baidu. Today Baidu and EMI Music announced that they were teaming up to launch an ad-supported online music streaming service in China, the first revenue-sharing arrangement between an internet search engine and [...]

More than 100 million people have installed Internet Explorer 7, making it the second most used browser in the U.S., trailing only its predecessor–IE 6, the software maker said Friday. “I’m pleased to report that on January 8, we had the 100 millionth IE7 installation,” Microsoft Group Program Manager Tony Chor said on the IE [...]

What might have seemed like a petty issue to Apple is garnering worldwide attention this week. The Mac-maker is reportedly planning to charge consumers $5 to unlock the next-generation of Wi-Fi technology that comes preinstalled on the latest Intel-based laptops. An industry report citing Apple’s plans to profit from software that will unlock the preinstalled [...]

Netflix subscribers will soon get access to movies delivered over the Internet, finally allowing the company to live up to its name. For those with the bandwidth, this is a nice (and free) extra, but users with slow connections will want to stick with DVDs. The new service streams movies to Windows PCs instead of [...]

Today marks the official launch of the global broadband television service as well as the debut of it’s new name — "Joost." Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom, the two Scandinavian entrepreneurs behind KaZaA and Skype, which shook up the music and telephone industry respectively, have formally launched their latest salvo at the television industry. Previously [...]

It’s time for a DRM showdown, according to experts and industry executives. The debate over digital rights management (DRM) is as contentious today as it was five years ago. But industry experts on a panel at the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) said Monday there will have to be some industry consensus soon over digital [...]

It has long been promised that the PC will become the entertainment hub of the home. However, the problem with this vision is that our computers tend to sit in the bedroom and means getting those movies, music and pictures the last few metres to the living room is a real pain. Teenager watching TV [...]

It was the kind of letter that can ruin a guy’s day. Late in November, Twentieth Century Fox fired off a blunt, one-page missive to Ellis Jacob, the Toronto-based chief executive of Cineplex Entertainment, Canada’s biggest cinema chain. Bruce Snyder, Fox’s Hollywood-based president of domestic distribution, had spent the last few weeks steaming mad after [...]

AOL has announced that pioneering P2P service Napster will now be its exclusive online music subscription service, effectively replacing AOL Music Now. Subscribers to AOL Music Now will not be shunned, though, as the online media giant will convert accounts under the former music service to Napster accounts. That is, unless subscribers want to cancel [...]

The outspoken software entrepreneur and owner of the Dallas Mavericks basketball team offered his thoughts on the emerging power of BitTorrent file-sharing technology. In a post on his blog yesterday, “blog maverick” Mark Cuban offered his thoughts on emerging new P2P technologies, and BitTorrent in particular. The often outspoken and frequently vocal software and basketball [...]

got for Christmas, and then wonder how you’re ever going to find them on there, you can ponder for a moment the disappearance of all the hardware that used to be involved with being a music fan — and its consequences. In spite of being based around a collection of captured sound waves, recorded music [...]

Universal Music, the world’s biggest music company, launched what it billed as the largest online site for classical and jazz music on Wednesday as part of a drive to exploit rising demand for digital downloads. “We expect sales to begin with to be relatively modest, but by the third or fourth quarter of the year [...]

Has Sony gone mad? Prominent adult movie producer Digital Playground (site) says it is forced to use HD DVD instead of Blu-ray, because Sony does not allow XXX-rated movies to be released on Blu-ray. It does not matter how you stand to porn. It is here and it is a massive business. It is also [...]

“The goal is to raise enough money to either buy Sealand – or some other small island somewhere!” .Sealand, the sovereign Principality founded in 1967 in international waters, six miles off the eastern shores of Britain, may just become the new home of those crazy cats over at The Pirate Bay. What is Sealand you [...]

Switching over from an apparent direct connect setup, the site realizes it’s 2007 and starts using BitTorrent to swap and share files with fellow fans. Antsmarching.org, one of several fansites devoted to all things Dave Matthews Band, or “DMB” as they call them, offering a concert setlist and trading database, a forum, concert audio downloads, [...]

Visa, the well-known credit card company has come forth with a plan to globally mesh cellphone users with their customer base. Nokia is heavily involved with this idea and has partnered with Visa on it. How would they do this? They take a gadget like a cellphone and make it possible for their customers to [...]

To fight piracy, the Australian broadcaster allows you to download an episode 5 days before it actually airs. The Australian TV broadcaster Network TEN has decided on a new plan for combating piracy and courting new online viewers. No doubt spurred on by a recent research study conducted by University of Sydney honors student Adam [...]

Sony’s long-awaited PlayStation 3 may have missed its global shipment target and been beaten in its home market by rival Nintendo’s surprise hit Wii video game system, new figures show. The results herald more bad news for Sony Corp., which is struggling to maintain its dominance in video gaming amid a three-way battle with Nintendo [...]

Cisco Systems is suing Apple for trademark infringement in a US federal court, for using the iPhone name. Apple launched its new handheld mobile phone device under the iPhone name on Tuesday, at the hotly anticipated Macworld event in San Francisco. Following the launch Cisco said it hoped to resolve the matter by Tuesday evening [...]