Online TV/Music
16 May 2013
Swedish prosecutor asks court to block file-sharer Pirate Bay Reuters
Swedish prosecutors have launched a new attempt to close down the popular file-sharing site The Pirate Bay, asking a court to block internet addresses used to access the site.
14 May 2013
France Should Soften Internet 'three Strikes' Law, Says Gov't PC World
France should stop cutting off the Internet access of those accused of illicit file sharing, and close down the agency that polices online copyright breaches, according to a government-commissioned report.
11 May 2013
Worth paying for? YouTube is becoming more like normal television The Economist
One of the most popular videos this month on YouTube, an online video site, is a commercial by a bottled-water firm, Evian. In it, adults walking by a shop window see their baby lookalikes reflected, and start dancing with their former selves. The grown-up YouTube, however, looks nothing like it did in its infancy. Once a warehouse for pirated clips and amateur footage of cats, YouTube has been trying to transform itself into a sleeker, more sophisticated site that can compete with television for advertisers. It will soon look even more like television. On May 9th it is expected to announce that it will charge users for subscriptions to some "channels".
10 May 2013
Youtube Rolls Out Paid Subscription Channels CIO
Not everything on YouTube is free any more. The video-sharing website will now charge users a monthly fee to view certain content offered through subscription channels, the Google-owned site announced Thursday.
09 May 2013
BitTorrent reveals Bundle file to package media content BBC News
The developers of the BitTorrent file-sharing protocol have unveiled what they describe as a new "multimedia format" called a Bundle.
07 May 2013
YouTube Is Said to Plan a Subscription Option New York Times
Newspapers have digital subscriptions. Record labels have iTunes and Spotify. And YouTube is about to have special programming for paying customers.
German court convicts, sentences BitTorrent site operator to nearly 4 years Ars Technica
A German district court in the western city of Aachen has handed down one of the harshest sentences for abetting copyright infringement: three years and 10 months in prison.
28 April 2013
iTunes is 10 years old today. Was it the best idea Apple ever had? The Observer
While the shares fall and the smartphone wars rage, Apple's music store keeps growing - and tying users into its platform
26 April 2013
A decade of iTunes singles killed the music industry CNN
Believe it or not, Apple's iTunes Music Store turns 10 this weekend. Although iTunes has in many ways been a godsend to fans of digital music, it has been a source of endless frustration for the music industry.
22 April 2013
British internet users unaware of illegal downloading The Guardian
Internet users are unwittingly turning into online pirates over confusion about what constitutes illegal downloading.
Japan's NPA to urge ISPs to block users of hijacking software The Mainichi
The National Police Agency (NPA) is poised to urge Internet service providers to voluntarily block communications if an anonymous software system called "Tor" -- short for "The onion router" -- is found abused online.
17 April 2013
Italy blocks 27 sites suspected of aiding file-sharing Ars Technica
Italian authorities have recently ordered that two dozen file-sharing websites be blocked in Italy, the largest such move since American authorities seized over 80 domain names in 2010.
08 April 2013
Tech upstarts threaten TV broadcast model Reuters
Two fledgling technologies could dramatically reshape the $60 billion-a-year television broadcast industry as they challenge the business model that has helped keep broadcasters on the lucrative end of the media spectrum.
05 April 2013
Film studios request removal of takedown notices BBC News
Two film studios have asked Google to take down links to messages sent by them requesting the removal of links connected to film piracy.
21 March 2013
Music sales are not affected by web piracy, study finds BBC News
A report published by the European Commission Joint Research Committee claims that music web piracy does not harm legitimate sales.
18 March 2013
Fewer TVs, but more television in British homes The Independent
The average Briton now watches more than four hours of television a day, as the rise of catch-up services encourages us to spend longer slumped on the sofa, according to a new report.
14 March 2013
BitTorrent goes straight in effort to end association with piracy The Guardian
BitTorrent, the brand that enables much of the world's illegal downloading, is trying to go straight with a legitimate service for digital music.
Pirate Bay conviction for assisted copyright infringement was justified, EU human rights court rules Network World
The European Court of Human Rights has rejected an appeal from two founders of The Pirate Bay, saying that a Swedish court was right to put copyright law ahead of their right to receive and impart information.
07 March 2013
Movie Sales Increased With Shutdown of Piracy Sites Wall Street Journal
Shutting major piracy websites can increase online revenue for movie studios, a new study has found.
02 March 2013
Hollywood targets "rogue" mobile apps in war on pirated content Reuters
Hollywood studios, which for years have waged a war against online piracy, are now going after so-called "rogue" mobile apps that use images from movies and television shows without their permission.
01 March 2013
UK ISPs ordered to block access to three file-sharing websites The Guardian
BSkyB, BT, Virgin Media and three other UK broadband providers have been ordered by the high court to block access to three music and movie file-sharing websites as content owners redouble efforts to stem online piracy.
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.
