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Benjamin Wayne, CEO of Fliqz, a white label video streaming  service has lit up the blogosphere with his prognosis that YouTube is doomed and is currently on life support. His opinion was based on a recent Credit Suisse report shed some light on how much money Google is using on YouTube and he believes that [...]

Edgar Bronfman, CEO of the Warner Music Group, has publicly framed the music industry’s failure to accommodate file-sharing as an ‘inadvertent’ war on consumers. I’m left wondering how you can file a series of lawsuits inadvertently. ‘We expected our business would remain blissfully unaffected even as the world of interactivity, constant connection and file sharing [...]

RIAA Hits a Sour Note With Its File-Sharing Witch Hunt If I were a big-shot L.A. music mogul, Jammie Thomas would not be my ideal poster child as the face of illegal file sharing. Thomas, you’ll recall, was convicted last week in a Duluth, Minnesota, court for violating copyright law by making a couple of [...]

There has been a recent spat between Apple and NBC Universal over pricing TV shows on the iTunes Music Store (iTMS). The net result is Apple is no longer offering NBC Universal programming on the iTunes Music Store. Centered around the argument was the desire for NBC Universal to charge consumers 4.99 per episode of [...]

From DailyKOS In February 2003, a Florida Court of Appeals unanimously agreed with an assertion by FOX News that there is no rule against distorting or falsifying the news in the United States. Lawyers paid by Bill O’Reilly’s bosses argued in court that Fox can lie with impunity. It’s their right under the 1st Ammendment. [...]

I now finally have an excuse to get an HDTV and HD Cable/FIOS. TiVo HD gets official: $299, loaded, with SATA and TTG coming I am addicted to my TiVo and hate watching TV without it. When Verizon called offering FIOS service I turned them down because I couldn’t easily use my Tivo. If this [...]