Video Killed the Distributor
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The symbiotic relationship between the major record labels and online music companies is as testy as ever at a digital music conference. Eliot Van Buskirk reports from New York.
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A video download site that had been exposed as a front for the MPAA to catch those who download copyrighted content, as well as those who may have already downloaded it, has been taken offline.
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Someone needs to buy a firewall. The game industry, Rockstar in particular, has once again been a victim of piracy. After the big-time thefts over the last year or so, such as Half-Life 2, Doom
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Quiet death Visitors to Wal-Mart's video download site are being greeted with the message "The Wal-Mart Video Downloads Service closed on 12/21/07" after the retail giant quietly canned the service because "Hewlett Packard discontinued the technology that powered it".â¦
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The news that the Dixon&#39;s group is to stop selling the venerable VCR is the end of an era. As with the launch of Dire Straits &#39;Brothers in Arms&#39; CD in the early 1980s which was seen as the tipping point between
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Was using an infrared device to shut off exhibitorsâ video presentations a harmless prank?
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The DVD renting pioneer obliterates quarterly targets.
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They are running for the hills but the end of the trail is Little Big Horn, where Custer made his last stand, and lost his life. Of course the Indians didn't do too well either. AP: "Girding for a potential threat from Apple Inc., online DVD rental service Netflix Inc. is lifting its limits on how long most subscribers can watch movies and television shows over high-speed Internet connections." Please oh Netflix strategy gods, get a copy of Marketing Warfare and read it. Netflix owns what used to be a great hill, for some it might still be one, the movies-by-mail hill. They obviously feel they need to be in the Internet movie business, and in that they have a huge head start that they aren't using. They are being too damned fair to their competitors.  Give the users the ability to grant other sites access to their movie ratings. Build Netflix into the social network of movies. You're already there, but you need to make every other social network connect up to Netflix. You need to be the hub for movie-watching on the net. You're lucky that so far that's what you are. But soon you will have to fight for that too, and then it will be too late to try to force your competitors to connect to your site. They will have data that you want. Then the nature of the negotiating will change. Right now you have the data. Use that power! Make the users everyone think of Netflix as the place on the Net for Flix.
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Blog: NJTA sues YouTube and several smaller video distribution sites over the posting of a video that had been shot with an NJTA camera.
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The file-sharing software company  has a new platform for crystal-clear, high-definition videos over BitTorrent. Those blurry, pixelated videos on YouTube may soon be a relic of the past. By Michael Calore.
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End of a photographic era The Polaroid Corporation has announced it's running down its instant film business, likely marking the death knell for the technology.â¦
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High-definition DVD died Friday after a brief illness. The cause of death was the decision by Wal-Mart to stock only HD DVDs and players using the Blu-ray format.
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Seeing motion pictures exhibited in film projection theatres is a dying tradition which we will one day tell our grandchildren about in order to bore them.    The causes of this death are obvious to many consumers, but mystify movie studios and exhibitors alike.    What follows is an open letter to the proprietors of Cineplex Entertainment LP, carbon copied here to you, the K5 community, in order that you may share in my vitriol.
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The high-definition DVD  format war has turned into a format death watch.
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"Copyright officials recommended on Thursday that U.S. law be amended so that companies that rely on copyright infringement to make a profit can be held liable for their actions."  Which of course applies only to US companies.  Kazaa should be free and clear.  ...  Should have supplied a link.  I'm a BAD blogger!
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NEW YORK  &#151; The music video is shrinking. With the music industry in crisis from falling sales and file sharing, labels have less cash to subsidize elaborate videos that will mostly be seen in miniature on computers. The result has been a major shift in the art form, as artists increasingly embrace the YouTube aesthetic with cheap, stripped-down, low-production videos.
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After making a copyright claim that effectively kills a viral video, the photojournalist behind the takedown guts her Flickr account and focuses on taking control of her images.