The Legal side of Internet Television including Digital Rights Management (DRM), Intellectual Property and Piracy
Legal, DRM, Piracy & IP
NRK recently took part in a very successful experiment with distributing the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation programme, Nordkalotten 365, via BitTorrent. A little while...
Earlier this week, YouTube suffered an outage which lasted for almost two hours, a serious amount of time for the second...
An advertising funded broadband service which only launched fully at the beginning of January, has already been forced to suspend its...
The fight against file sharers, and so called music and movie pirates continues, even though the organisations fighting it must know...
Those of us living in the west, be it the USA or Europe, often think ourselves as hard done by in...
For years the BitTorrent protocol has been blamed for encouraging the spread of pirated television shows, full length movies, and popular...
The MPAA is rapidly catching up with the RIAA in terms of blindly and blatantly pushing fot their business models to...
Copyright law is one of the most contentious issues around right now, and in no area is this seen greater than...
The MPAA is becoming increasingly like the RIAA, in its attempts at going after organisations, and individuals, who share (or allow...
When Hulu first launched in late October, it received praise from all quarters, and since then, everyone has either begged, borrowed...
What is YouTube for? We all know it is there as a means for ordinary people to make and upload clips...
In a move sure to upset the MPAA, and anti-piracy organisations everywhere, the people behind AllOfMp3 have now created a similar...
This week saw a landmark move by the French government which could see illegal file sharers, of music, and eventually movies,...
Right from the off, I think we need to face some facts about P2P services. While certainly capable of acting as...
The mess surrounding P2P file sharing is getting ever more incredible, complicated, and well, messy. So much so that we simply...
Earlier this week, DivX announced they would soon be offering support for the Sony Playstation 3 games console. The codec technology...
The battle for blocking copyrighted materials from being distributed around the web could be about to get even murkier. It was...
Everyone has heard the saying “There are two sides to every story” and this is so true of many things. A...
The Daily Show is a brilliant satirical show which everyone has probably heard of, even if they aren’t particularly fans of...
YouTube yesterday launched a localised Australian version of the site to better cater for their 3 million odd Australian users. Even...
There I said it! I know lots of people won’t agree with me and think the owner of TV-Links.co.uk is some...
There were a bunch of stories a while ago about TorrentSpy and the bunch of seemingly mixed signals that were routinely...
In light of the recent TVLinks shut-down in the UK, I thought we should take a look at the many other...
A host of media companies have launched a new push to force user generated content sites such as YouTube to tighten...
The massively popular video streaming site TVLinks was last night shut down by British authorities and the owner, a 26 year...
Viacom, Disney, Microsoft, and MySpace all have a couple of things in common? Apart from being huge media companies with a lot...
Under pressure from movie studios, record labels and their friends on Capitol Hill to filter out copyrighted material, YouTube’s parent company Google...
Viacom has been feuding with YouTube for almost a year now over various copyrighted clips of John Stewart that keep popping...
Originally planned for a September release, the fabled YouTube antipiracy tool has finally appeared, according to Webware. Due to the controversy...
The Pirate Bay is continuing its search for an island to call its own. You have to hand it to brokep...
