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

Legal, DRM, Piracy & IP

How BitTorrent Can Successfully Work As A Distribution Tool For A Public Broadcaster

NRK recently took part in a very successful experiment with distributing the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation programme, Nordkalotten 365, via BitTorrent. A little while...
Eirik Solheim
3 min read

Could YouTube Being Taken Down By Pakistan So Easily Be A Sign Of Things To Come?

Earlier this week, YouTube suffered an outage which lasted for almost two hours, a serious amount of time for the second...
Cyndy Aleo-Carreira
1 min read

TVCatchup Suspends Services After Complaints From Broadcasters Such As BBC, ITV, Channel 4

An advertising funded broadband service which only launched fully at the beginning of January, has already been forced to suspend its...
Dave Parrack
2 min read

The War Against Illegal File Sharers | Higher Education Bill With File Sharing Warning

The fight against file sharers, and so called music and movie pirates continues, even though the organisations fighting it must know...
Art Brodsky
2 min read

Online Video Regulations In China | Where Even Infidelity Is Censored Not To Exist

Those of us living in the west, be it the USA or Europe, often think ourselves as hard done by in...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

BitTorrent Not Just For Pirates? | Norwegian TV Broadcaster Makes Series Available For Free

For years the BitTorrent protocol has been blamed for encouraging the spread of pirated television shows, full length movies, and popular...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

MPAA Data About Illegal Movie Downloading From University Campuses Inaccurate

The MPAA is rapidly catching up with the RIAA in terms of blindly and blatantly pushing fot their business models to...
Gigi Sohn
2 min read

Should Video Copyright Laws Be Universal? | The Bizarre Case Starring Uri Geller

Copyright law is one of the most contentious issues around right now, and in no area is this seen greater than...
Jef Pearlman
3 min read

TorrentSpy Falls To The Power Of The MPAA | Tampering With Evidence Is Never A Good Idea

The MPAA is becoming increasingly like the RIAA, in its attempts at going after organisations, and individuals, who share (or allow...
Paul Glazowski
1 min read

OPENhulu – Hulu Videos For Everyone, Invitation Or Not | How Long Will It Last?

When Hulu first launched in late October, it received praise from all quarters, and since then, everyone has either begged, borrowed...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

Is YouTube The Proper Forum For Human Rights Abuse Videos? The Wael Abbas Case

What is YouTube for? We all know it is there as a means for ordinary people to make and upload clips...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

Zml.com | Cheap DRM Free Movie Downloads – Get iPod Ready, PDA, DivX & Hi Res Formats

In a move sure to upset the MPAA, and anti-piracy organisations everywhere, the people behind AllOfMp3 have now created a similar...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

French Government Inks Deal To Punish File Sharers By Cutting Internet Connection

This week saw a landmark move by the French government which could see illegal file sharers, of music, and eventually movies,...
Leslie Poston
2 min read

Vuze – A Legal P2P BitTorrent Service Asks FCC For Help After Being Blocked By Various ISPs

Right from the off, I think we need to face some facts about P2P services.  While certainly capable of acting as...
Paul Glazowski
1 min read

P2P File Sharing News | New Developments In The Ever Messy World Of The Pirates

The mess surrounding P2P file sharing is getting ever more incredible, complicated, and well, messy. So much so that we simply...
Paul Glazowski
3 min read

Sony’s PS3 To Get DivX Support In Software Update | Will The Xbox 360 Follow Suit?

Earlier this week, DivX announced they would soon be offering support for the Sony Playstation 3 games console. The codec technology...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

AT&T Introduce ISP Copyright Filtering Technology Called Vobile VideoDNA

The battle for blocking copyrighted materials from being distributed around the web could be about to get even murkier. It was...
Gigi Sohn
2 min read

BitTorrent Traffic Now Being Unfairly Manipulated By ISPs Around The World

Everyone has heard the saying “There are two sides to every story” and this is so true of many things. A...
Paul Glazowski
2 min read

The Daily Show Web Archives Unavailable To All Non-US Citizens… But I’m Canadian!

The Daily Show is a brilliant satirical show which everyone has probably heard of, even if they aren’t particularly fans of...
Mathew Ingram
1 min read

YouTube Launches In Australia | Claim They Should Not Be Governed By Media Legislation

YouTube yesterday launched a localised Australian version of the site to better cater for their 3 million odd Australian users. Even...
Dave Parrack
58 sec read

TVLinks Owner Deserved to be Arrested

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...
Chris Tew
4 min read

Torrentspy Versus the MPAA: The Story Goes On | Now The Gun For Hire Hacker Talks

There were a bunch of stories a while ago about TorrentSpy and the bunch of seemingly mixed signals that were routinely...
Paul Glazowski
1 min read

Internet Video Copyright Laws Recap

In light of the recent TVLinks shut-down in the UK, I thought we should take a look at the many other...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

Media Giants Want User Generated Content Principles | Blocking Copyrighted Material

A host of media companies have launched a new push to force user generated content sites such as YouTube to tighten...
Sherwin Siy
3 min read

TVLinks Shut Down By Authorities | Owner Arrested On Copyright Violation Charges

The massively popular video streaming site TVLinks was last night shut down by British authorities and the owner, a 26 year...
Dave Parrack
58 sec read

Viacom, Disney, Microsoft and MySpace Team Up To Battle For Their Online Copyrights

Viacom, Disney, Microsoft, and MySpace all have a couple of things in common? Apart from being huge media companies with a lot...
Paul Glazowski
1 min read

The Google YouTube Anti-Piracy Tool Means The Internet Is A Little Less Free Today

Under pressure from movie studios, record labels and their friends on Capitol Hill to filter out copyrighted material, YouTube’s parent company Google...
Gigi Sohn
3 min read

The Daily Show Gets Site Dedicated To Video Clips Archive | Viacom Stupid Like A Fox?

Viacom has been feuding with YouTube for almost a year now over various copyrighted clips of John Stewart that keep popping...
Mathew Ingram
1 min read

YouTube Anti-Piracy Software Finally Launches | Google Back To The Drawing Board Already?

Originally planned for a September release, the fabled YouTube antipiracy tool has finally appeared, according to Webware. Due to the controversy...
Michael Garrett
2 min read

The Pirate Bay Resumes Search For Own Island | Torrent Site Ramps Up Anti Big Media Plans

The Pirate Bay is continuing its search for an island to call its own. You have to hand it to brokep...
Paul Glazowski
1 min read