Posts Tagged with ‘big-media’

By now you’ve probably gotten a bit familiar already with OiNK, a peer-to-peer venue that recently had itself publicly manhandled and forced offline by both Dutch and English authorities last week. And you’ve likely received word that The Pirate Bay promised to “re-launch” the operation, albeit with a ‘B’ added to its title (so “BOiNK” will be its new name; cheeky, eh?).
Well, today you’re going to get another little factoid to add to your daily dose of nifty news to [...]

When NBC’s CEO Jeff Zucker took time Wednesday to stand atop his company’s soapbox, he said something quite true: that copyright owners are in fact “losing the battle” against the world’s digital pirates.
What he failed to follow his statement up with, however, is that it’s really no use fighting the copyright violators (which, I might add, he said most certainly should be done, and perhaps exponentially more forcefully), and that it’d be far more effective and financially beneficial for [...]

By now you’ve likely all heard of the MediaDefender-MiiVi debacle. It has to do with MiiVi, a site once thought to be one of your average peer-to-peer channels, home to both legal and illicit linking, but recently discovered to be a front run by MediaDefender, an “establishment” now known to be operated under the auspices of Big Media. Knowing this, you’ve likely now judged those in their respective ivory towers as no-good [expletive], whose underhanded (and possibly illegal, if one [...]

Though Google wants to cozy up to Big Media as best it can, the monster from Mountain View is suiting up in the finest armor just in case a battle ensues between itself and its stubborn, reclusive Hollywood “partners.”
Friday, news hit Red Herring, a technology weekly, about Google’s quest for a “high-level legal eagle.” The company did the super-conventional thing and posted a help-wanted ad for a lawyer adept in wading through intellectual property and digital media law legalese. [...]

The New York Times is doing it. The Financial Times is doing it. A great number of other reputable newspapers are doing it. What am I speaking of? Blogging.
David Pogue of NYT fame (Circuits writer) regularly submits items to Pogue’s Posts, a collection of informal writeups about stuff not quite column-worthy or stuff that didn’t make it past the editor or the author just felt like jotting down and seeing what the public had to say in response. The [...]