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South Park, streaming, online, for free. Legally!
Filed in archive Video by Jordan Grodecki on March 26, 2008
Television is slowly entering the digital age; BBC has had iPlayer with all recent shows available for a while, Channel 4 in the UK streams all it's content, Hulu is out of beta, and now a singu...
CBC tells you to share one of it's shows...
Filed in archive Video by Jordan Grodecki on March 20, 2008
CBC, one of Canada's biggest television broadcasters, has told us all to download, share, and burn episodes of it's upcoming TV show "Canada's Next Great Prime Minister". Ignor...
Hulu leaves Beta!
Filed in archive Video by Jordan Grodecki on March 12, 2008
hulu, the new, legal streaming site, which is partnered with all the big media distribution agencies, has finally come out of beta and is available to everyone! The site, which has streaming conten...
Independant Film Maker Thanks P2P
Filed in archive Video by Jordan Grodecki on December 13, 2007
Jerome Bixby, an independant film maker, who has just released his latest sci-fi feature, "The Man From Earth", is exactly the person who somoene would expect to be deadset against P2P. Ho...
Vuze Reaches 7 Million Users
Filed in archive Companies , Video by Marc on August 27, 2007
Vuze, the HD P2PTV service from Azureus, announced it reached 7 million users in only 6 months of service. Vuze's primary programming partners is the BBC, which added the TV series The Office. T...
Number One Couch Potato? Mom
Filed in archive Stats , Video by Marc on July 26, 2007
According to research firm IMMI, parents watch more video on TV, DVD, and theaters than children. Now maybe that's because kids are on the phones and computers IMing, surfing, and YouTubing. But I...
YouTube is Your Main Tube
Filed in archive Companies , Stats , Video by Marc on July 12, 2007
How big is YouTube? It is far larger than the next 64 video-sharing sites combined, according to Hitwise, an Internet Audience Measurement company. Google's acquisition and site promotion hiked i...
Baseball Strikes Out on Slingbox
Filed in archive Companies , Consumer rights , Sports , Video by Marc on July 4, 2007
The Amazon Slingbox pioneered place-shifting, changing the location at which you watched a broadcast. The Slingbox lost a fan in Major League Baseball, which claims that it's not legal to remotely...
Voyeur Cable
Filed in archive Community , Video by Marc on June 28, 2007
This story isn't about P2P architecture, but it has much in common with file sharing - unauthorized access of someone else's content. Slate has a fun feature called Other People's Porn th...
It's Back: 10 Things I Hate About Commandments
Filed in archive Business , Entertainment industry , Free and Legal Files , Society & Public Policy , Video by Marc on June 26, 2007
It's a comedy 3,000 years in the making and Viacom shut it down. The DMCA makes it easy for copyright holders to request content be removed. But what about when they get it wrong? Viacom has se...
Power Video
Filed in archive Video by Marc on June 20, 2007
YouTube has demonstrated the power and flexibility of using the web for video sharing. But it's limited as files must be streamed from your browser in the format provided. A horde of sites have gr...
Warner Puts The Brakes on Imeem
Filed in archive Companies , Legal , Video by Marc on June 13, 2007
Another week, another Hollywood lawsuit against a web sharing site. This time it's Warner Music and imeem. Imeem has attracted a lot of visitors for its user-content sharing service. It claims a...
Eyespot Targets Legal Video Sharing
Filed in archive Companies , Video by Marc on June 6, 2007
Video web site Eyespot provides a white label video sharing site that web sites can use for their own branding and media sharing services. Customers have included StarWars.com, the NBA, Paramount Pict...
YouTube Legal Woes Continue
Filed in archive Companies , Entertainment industry , Legal , Video by Marc on May 31, 2007
Other content companies are piling on top of YouTube in the wake of Google's purchase (a defendant with huge cash reserves) and Viacom's monster $1 billion copyright infringement lawsuit. Plai...
ITV Attracting Billions of Dollars
Filed in archive Companies , Video by Marc on May 24, 2007
AT&T is expected spend $4.5 billion for its U-Verse IPTV service in the next two years. U-Verse is offered as an integrated offering to compete against cable companies with Internet, telephone, an...
Skinkers Turns to Microsoft
Filed in archive Companies , Technology , Video by Marc on May 22, 2007
Push technology developer Skinkers turned to Microsoft Research to co-develop its LiveStation P2P Internet broadcast technology. LiveStation integrates Microsoft's new Silverlight platform. Silv...
Vudu: More P2PTV
Filed in archive Video by Marc on May 17, 2007
New cable set-top box maker provider Vudu will make available 5,000 major Hollywood movies this summer and use P2P for streaming HD quality distribution. Vudu has deals with every major studio except ...
Will Customers Pay for P2PTV?
Filed in archive Business , International , Video by Marc on May 10, 2007
The Mexican phone company TELMEX will see. TELMEX is launching Prodigy Media with streaming and downloadable video initially for free. TELMEX is the dominant telephone provider and so is restricted in...
Amelie Sport Promotes P2PTV
Filed in archive Video by Marc on April 25, 2007
The Amelie Sport TV weblog promotes live P2P distribution of sports TV programming through fellow enthusiasts. Amelie Sport TV doesn't distribute the programs itself. Instead it acts as a progra...
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