Rupert Murdoch, after a short time of seemed like he understood the internet was a new and exciting tool, has since changed his medication and now sees it as the evil of all evils. He has been pushing, vocally, not through action, reinstating paywalls...
…but movie companies certainly don’t see that. Paramount Pictures released its study of the five million IP addresses it tracked who downloaded camcorded copies of Star Trek. Writing to the FCC, Paramount says:
Just five years ago, one had to be...
While many countries continue to roll out faster and cheaper broadband, the U.S. remains locked in simply how to define broadband. For all our claims of technological superiority, our country is falling behind. So how did Monticello, Minn, a town of...
CDs are dying, but the music industry is growing. Newspapers are dying, but journalism is thriving. DVD sales are dropping, but movie attendance is rising. Yet for all this, article after article says the music, news, and movie industry is dead or...
A paper from New York University researchers analyzes the methods used by the content industry to annoy and stop file-sharing on BitTorrent networks. They found the practices of MediaDefender and other organizations presented no more than a nuisance...