The Legal side of Internet Television including Digital Rights Management (DRM), Intellectual Property and Piracy

Legal, DRM, Piracy & IP

Web TV Wire 2008 Review | A Year In Online Video

2008 has now seamlessly morphed into 2009 and we’re all a year older, and maybe even a year wiser. But what...
Dave Parrack
2 min read

Warner Music Videos Disappear From YouTube | New Licensing Deal Fails To Materialize

Warner Music videos are currently disappearing from YouTube at a rate of knots due to a breakdown in negotiations concerning a...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

The Dark Knight Most Pirated Movie Of 2008 & Still A Box Office Smash | Hollywood Blinks

Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the last 12 months, you’ll know that The Dark Knight has been absolutely...
Dave Parrack
2 min read

Watch NFL Games Online With ‘Game Rewind’ | NFL Games In HD For Just $20 A Season

Media companies and broadcasters are increasingly realizing the opportunity they are missing by not offering their programming on the Web. Whether...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

Kangaroo Is Dead – BBC iPlayer For All On Way | BBC, ITV, Channel 4 Launch Project Canvas

Kangaroo may be all but dead, but the BBC, ITV, and Channel 4 aren’t giving up on their joint plans to...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

Kangaroo Facing Evolution Or Death | Competition Commission Gives Verdict

Kangaroo, a British rival to the U.S. Hulu, is facing evolution or death after the Competition Commission refused to accept it...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

MTV and MySpace Monetize Uploaded Videos | How To Make Money From Copyrighted Clips

Online video is changing, becoming more in tune with old media. One of the ways this change is being demonstrated is...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

Watch Amazon Movies For Free Using Adobe Security Hole | Preview = Free Download

How do you fancy watching high quality premium movies and episodes of television shows for free on Amazon Video On Demand?...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

YouTube Video Controversy of Finland Killer | Student, Matti Saari Kills 10 in Finnish School

In light of a new YouTube killer going on a shooting spree, should the Google-owned video sharing site be doing more...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

Did the MPAA Secretly Kill Peekvid? | Video Linking Site Disappears Due To “Server Fees”

Peekvid – Links But No Hosting Peekvid, a website that indexed television content and provided links to the videos on other...
Dave Parrack
2 min read

ThePirateCity.org Video Streaming Site? | Irony: The Pirate Bay Gets Pirated

Anyone who regularly downloads over peer to peer networks or torrent sites will have heard of The Pirate Bay. But have...
Dave Parrack
2 min read

Making Hulu, BBC iPlayer Worldwide | Is It Time To Overhaul Territorial Licensing?

The Internet is a truly global phenomenon, with every single country in the world being connected to the Web. But, due...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

IsoHunt Lawsuit Sends Message to CRIA, RIAA, MPAA & More – Linking is Legal

Should a site be held accountable for merely linking to pirated material? IsoHunt thinks not, and is taking its case to...
Dave Parrack
2 min read

Veoh Wins Copyright Infringement Case | Any Impact On Viacom Vs YouTube Lawsuit?

Could the decision to throw out a copyright infringement case against Veoh have an impact on the $1 billion lawsuit Viacom...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

Fair Use On YouTube | Judge Backs Stephanie Lenz In Overzealous Takedown Notice Case

Stephanie Lenz is a tough woman. Not content with merely getting Universal to retract its unnecessary takedown notice over a YouTube...
Sherwin Siy
7 min read

Olympic Torrents Hugely Popular | The Pirate Bay Becomes ‘The Beijing Bay’ To Taunt IOC

What happens when the IOC runs to the authorities rather than approaching the pirates themselves? A round of pure and utter...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

Pirated YouTube Clips Gain Adverts | Forget Takedown Notices – There’s Money In It

Could monetizing rather than removing copyrighted clips prove to be a solution to both the ‘Viacom issue’ and YouTube’s failure to...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

Cablevision Remote DVR Court Case Win | Major Implications For All Video Streaming

In this digital age that we are now on the verge of, content producers are having to ensure their rights are...
Sherwin Siy
4 min read

Beijing 2008 Olympics On NBC | Delayed Opening Ceremony Forces Viewers To Web

Are the big television networks finally getting a grasp on the digital age and what the Web means for their business?...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

Cablevision Remote DVRs | Federal Court Rules Off-Site TiVos Don’t Infringe Copyright

Does the use of off-site DVRs, which work like a TiVo, infringe the copyrights of content providers such as American TV...
Sherwin Siy
4 min read

Metered Broadband Affecting Web Video | NBC Warns Over Olympic Download Service

The amount of video available on the Web is increasing massively every month, but if metered broadband becomes the norm, don’t...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

YouTube Sued Again | Italian Company Mediaset Accuses Google Of Illegal Distribution

Google must be regretting its decision to buy YouTube for such a vast sum of money. Not only is it failing...
Dave Parrack
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‘The Dark Knight’ Pirate Movie Update | Batman’s 38 Piracy Free Hours Deemed Success

The new Batman movie, The Dark Knight, has been the biggest film release of the year so far by a mile....
Dave Parrack
1 min read

MPAA Legal Movie Download Site a Wasted Effort | DRM & Over-Pricing Needs to Be Addressed

The MPAA has had a slight change of focus and now wants to educate instead of irritate with a central website...
Dave Parrack
2 min read

Redlasso Video Search Shuts Down | Service For Bloggers Closed By Fox, CBS & NBC

Redlasso, a video site that allowed bloggers to take snippets of TV shows to embed on their sites, has shut down...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

56.com Disappears From Internet | Chinese YouTube Possibly Shut Down By Government

It was already known that video sites based in China were subject to strict regulation by the Chinese government, but the...
Dave Parrack
1 min read