said by TK Junk Mail :

I hope the US passes a law forcing ISPs to boot users who pirate copyrighted music, movies and TV shows...
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said by TK Junk Mail :

More and more countries are jumping on the bandwagon. I hope the US passes a law forcing ISPs to boot users who pirate copyrighted music, movies and TV shows. Sweden is joining the UK, France and others in trying to rein in the thieves.

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said by worldvision :

Keep dreaming, that is likely all you will be able to do

Add Japan to the ranks of countries cracking down on illegal file sharing over the Internet. The Yomiuri Shimbun is reporting that the country's four Internet providers agreed to disconnect Internet connections "of users found to repeatedly use Winny and other file-sharing programs to illegally copy gaming software and music."

Can't say that this comes as a shock. The reaction against illegal file sharing, which began in the United States, has spread to Europe, and now, Asia. Chalk it up to a super-effective lobbying effort by well-organized copyright interests representing software companies, music labels, and the film industry.

TiVo, the maker of popular digital video recorders, announced a partnership with YouTube that will deliver Web video directly to users' televisions.

With the YouTube deal, TiVo becomes the latest entrant into the marketplace for porting Internet video content to television. Apple introduced a new version of Apple TV with similar features in January. Although several companies are trying to merge the online viewing experience with the living-room big screen, no one product dominates the market yet.

The company's Series 3 and HD set-top boxes will support YouTube connectivity; earlier versions of the hardware did not support online video playback.

Sometime later this year — the company did not specify the date — a category for YouTube videos will be added to the TiVo interface. Users will be able to log into their accounts and gain access to playlists on the video sharing site directly from their televisions. The company also plans to enable users to subscribe to video feeds from across the Internet by using a software program called an R.S.S. reader.

said by Daddy :

Can't get anything down. Very annoying.

Wednesday may be remembered as the day that the Big Media finally began to understand the Internet. The occasion was the official launch of Hulu, the new broadband video site created by the partnership of NBC and News Corp.

That's not to say that Hulu will ever supplant YouTube. On the contrary, I suspect that they will ultimately develop an interesting symbiotic relationship with each other, with YouTube being the home of the homemade, the obscure and the populist, with Hulu (or another site like it) aggregating the professional-grade productions from movie and television studios.

Needless to say, Hulu also has a very different business structure from YouTube. It is not a "free" site, like YouTube. Nor does it operate like iTunes in which you have to purchase content. No, Hulu is going the Third Way, the one the television world knows best: commercials.

So, the question is: Is Hulu any good? Walt Mossberg of The Wall Street Journal, the leading arbiter on all products and services electronic, gave Hulu the kind of thumbs up he usually reserves only for Apple products.

Les Moonvies of CBS hinted that his network might try the same thing -- or perhaps even sign on to Hulu. Either would be a good idea for the Depends Network, but to my mind the smart move would be to join Hulu and keep pumping it up with content. This is not a time to compete with Hulu, but rather to turn it into an ersatz common carrier.

And ABC? Well, now we're talking about the Mouse. And Disney is in bed with Apple, so to speak. But that doesn't mean that ABC/Disney content couldn't be on both sites -- isn't that what multiplatform selling is all about -- and give users the choice between ownership-without-ads and viewership-with-commercials.