The Legal side of Internet Television including Digital Rights Management (DRM), Intellectual Property and Piracy
Legal, DRM, Piracy & IP
Last November saw the French government, lead by President Nicolas Sarkozy, impose a law which meant that anyone suspected of using...
Two days ago saw news filter through that the judge in the Viacom Vs. YouTube court case over copyrighted material, had...
Despite many and varied attempts to Torrent Search Engine sites from operating, or receiving visitors, they are on the increase, and...
Big plans are rumoured to be afoot for the BBC’s online plans. Only a week after the new iPlayer 2.0 was...
The RIAA and its many cronies have been on the warpath for a few years now, going after individuals and organisations...
Way back in November last year, the BBC, ITV, and Channel 4 jointly announced their plans for an online video on...
NBC plans to show 2,200 hours of live television from the Beijing Summer Olympic Games online on NBCOlympics.com this summer, and...
The television industry has a chance to embrace the Web, the emergence of new technology and new ways of distribution in...
Peer To Peer networks and BitTorrent have always gone hand in hand with piracy, with many such services used for swapping...
Revision3, the online video studio founded by Kevin Rose and home of the Diggnation video podcast amongst others, suffered a denial...
YouTube is used by all kinds of people, to show off an achievement on a game, a funny incident with their...
The Viacom lawsuit against YouTube could result in the way information is exchanged over the Web by millions of people, and...
Should YouTube be a haven for free speech, or should it be a website subject to government intervention and forced to...
Virtually every Web user will have a Flash Player from Adobe installed, as it’s one of those must haves if you...
Redlasso is a website which offers bloggers and site administrators the chance to embed video clips from TV shows, news programmes...
It’s been well known for a while that many ISPs around the world have been messing with the flow of BitTorrent...
Yesterday, we touched on the issue which seems to be dominating the blogosphere right about now, that of the plans Microsoft...
Yesterday I reported how NBC has decided to get in to bed with Microsoft and offer individual episodes of its shows...
First the good news: TBS, the television network which has been broadcasting episodes of Seinfeld for years, has now starting streaming...
YouTube has gone beyond everybody’s expectations, and become by far the largest online video resource in the world, and one of...
Last September saw Apple and NBC acrimoniously split over their joint deal to distribute NBC programmes through iTunes. At the time,...
I didn’t see this one coming at all, in fact I thought Demonoid was dead and buried. But no, six months...
The latest episode of anarchic adult cartoon South Park, shown last night in the US, has mocked viral Internet stars who...
A recent post on the Last100 blog (part of the Read/Write Web network) written by Guinevere Orvis, an interactive producer with the...
Since co-founding YouTube in 2005 along with Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim, Steve Chen has seen his site go from a...
The Internet hasn’t been good for the movie or music industry, at least in terms of providing a new way for...
When it comes to the subject of peer to peer and file sharing over the Internet, there seems to be a...
In a move which furthers the debate as to what constitutes content stealing, MobiTV has threatened to take legal action against...
It’s a well known fact that some Internet users share files illegally. But does that justify ISPs around the world bringing...
