TV Networks Starting to Embrace Free Ad-Supported Content Streaming
Realize that putting TV shows online will build greater awareness among consumers and increase audiences.
TV networks are growing more confident that they have finally figured out the proper business model needed to succeed in the digital age. Rather than try to sell digital downloads to consumers it will instead focus on streaming episodes for [...]
IFPI Targeting eDonkey
Lawsuits against server operators in France, Germany, and the Netherlands have effectively cut off more than one million users of the popular P2P network.
The London-based International Federation Of Phonographic Industry (IFPI) have managed to deal the eDonkey file-sharing network a major blow last Friday when court-granted injunctions were ordered to shut down [...]
Starbucks to Give Away 50 million Songs From iTunes
Hopes to draw attention to its iTunes Wi-Fi Music Store, which begins rolling out in 600 stores in New York and Seattle in October.
From October 2 to November 7 at more than 10,000 US Starbucks locations, customers can receive “Song of the Day” cards redeemable for a free music track download [...]
RIAA Kicks off New School Year With 403 More College Piracy Lawsuits
Also sent out copyright infringement lawsuits against previous recipients of letters who have ignored settlement “opportunities.”
Nothing helps students get back in the swing of things like a nice threatening lawsuit.
The RIAA, on behalf of the major record companies, this week sent out a new wave of 403 pre-litigation settlement letters to [...]
NBC to Offer Free TV Downloads on ‘NBC Direct’
Plans to eventually transform the service into a model similar to iTunes by the middle of 2008.
NBC has announced plans for embarking on a bold new intuitive in which it finally acknowledges that people are increasingly moving away from traditional television viewing patterns.
More and more people want to consume television programming on their own terms [...]
MediaDefender’s Source Code Leaked to Pirate Bay
Can the noose get any tighter?
Just when you thought it impossible for any more pain to be inflicted upon those anti-P2P cops over at MediaDefender, along comes the Pirate Bay to drop anchor and fire a new salvo of data leakage.
First it was a nice chunk of some 9 months worth of internal MediaDefender [...]
ED2K Network Losing Key Germany-Based Servers
Server operators start closing down operations there after courts rule can be held liable for $28,000 USD in damages for each song it facilitates the illegal sharing of.
Over the past two weeks, ED2K users have been noticing that their very-reliable German-based servers have been disappearing. First, about a dozen "Big Bang" servers [...]
MediaDefender E-Mail Ranks BitTorrent Site ‘Protection’
MediaDefender memo lists sites from “strong to low presence.”
NOTE: In light of the recent leak of some internal MediaDefender memos have been able to reprint this e-mail and story concerning it in its entirety.
Many of you I’m sure are now familiar with MediaDefender, a self-described “leading provider of anti-piracy solutions in the emerging Internet-Piracy-Prevention [...]
Prince Plans to Sue The Pirate Bay
Has hired Web Sheriff to go after YouTube, eBay, and The Pirate Bay for allegedly profiting from copyright violations of his work.
All is not well in "3121 land" with rock star Prince, or the artist formerly know as such, launching a multi-pronged legal campaign against YouTube, eBay, and The Pirate Bay for allegedly encouraging [...]
New ISP & Cellphone Tax for Unlimited Music File-Sharing?
“TotalMusic” would need the support of ISPs, cellphone providers and the rest of the major record labels.
There’s word of new plan being circulated at Universal Music Group to combat the detrimental effects that illegal music file-sharing has had on physical CD sales.
It’s called “TotalMusic” and would be a “comprehensive subscription plan” in which [...]
