Donuts, the largest operator of new domain name extensions, and the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) have agreed an initiative they say will help ensure that websites using domains registered with Donuts are not engaged in large-scale piracy. Under the terms of the agreement, the MPAA will be treated as a ‘Trusted Notifier’ for […]
The US’s leading creative industries, whose products and services are fostered and protected by copyright laws, has called on the US Government to leverage US trade agreements and other trade tools to further open key international markets to opportunities for legitimate digital business, and to address acts, practices and policies that stand as obstacles to […]
The return of The X-Files to UK television on February 9th drew almost 3.5 million viewers giving Channel 5 its highest-rating show in over a year. The first new episode of The X-Files in 13 years, drew an average of 3.35 million viewers and a 15 per cent share of total TV viewing between 9pm […]
Short-form video content specialist The QYOU has confirmed that Vodafone Portugal has launched The QYOU’s linear channel on its IPTV service, Vodafone TV. The service went live on February 1st 2016 and will air to almost 400,000 subscribers across the country. The launch marks The QYOU’s entry into the Portuguese market. According to The QYOU, […]
A new multimillion pound media studio complex has opened in the heart of London, designed to provide cutting-edge facilities to the city’s media professionals and to creative industries students at London South Bank University (LSBU). ‘Elephant Studios at LSBU’ is a £4 million (€5.17m) interlinked media space, offering high-specification production facilities at the forefront of […]
Broadcast specialist Vision247 has announced the addition of Deutsche Welle’s (DW) English TV channel to its VisionTV service. VisionTV is the first IPTV service to host DW since its launch in June 2015. The channel is available with immediate effect on Freeview channel 244 on TV, desktop, EETV and via the VisionTV UK app. DW […]
Lagardère Active TV and DreamWorks Animation (DWA) have agreed a carriage deal which gives Lagardère free-to-air and basic pay-tv rights for its family and kids channels to broadcast DreamWorks Animation’s television series, including Dragons: Race to the Edge, The Adventures of Puss in Boots, All Hail King Julien, Turbo FAST, The Mr. Peabody & Sherman […]
The Pirate Bay, the infamous file-sharing torrent service, has added a browser plug-in that now allows lets users stream content directly from the website – meaning there’s no need to download the file through a program such as BitTorrent. The Swedish website has made the change by introducing support for TorrentTime, a browser plug-in that […]
Content protection and data-analytics solutions specialist MUSO has revealed what it describes as a major new addition to its range of market analytics and audience connection products with the launch of Retune, developed to help rights owners market their content directly to piracy audiences, and enable those audiences to reconnect to licensed content. According to […]
AMC Networks and Canalsat have signed an agreement to launch Sundance Channel Global on Canalsat’s satellite, ADSL, and IPTV platforms in France. Sundance Channel, which broadcasts exclusive independent feature films and documentaries as well as original drama series, will launch on February 9th as part of Canalsat’s Series and Cinema package as a 24/7 linear […]