UK culture secretary Jeremy Hunt has countered suggestions that tackling the problem of material that is being unlawfully distributed online is an assault on the “freedom” of the Internet. He told the Royal Television Society Cambridge Convention that unlawfully distributing copyrighted material was “theft, and a direct assault on the freedoms and rights of creators […]
Usenet indexing site Newzbin2 is readying software it says will defeat attempts to stop people visiting it. At the beginning of summer BT was ordered to block access to Newzbin2 after legal action by the Motion Picture Association (MPA). The MPA alleged the member-only Newzbin2 site brings together pirated movies and music put on Usenet […]
The RTL chief executive, Gerhard Zeiler, explained that the broadcaster had not done a deal with Hulu because its US owners would not allow the company to sell its own advertising. Zeiler told the Royal Television Society that aggregators such as Hulu, which is owned by US media companies News Corporation, NBC Universal, Disney and […]
Telstra is threatening to tear up its new $153 million broadcast rights deal with the Australian Football League (AFL) after a copyright dispute erupted over rival Optus providing football telecasts to its Internet and mobile phone customers. Telstra chief executive David Thodey has told The Age that if a court allows Optus to continue showing […]
Video rights management specialists MyVideoRights has received a funding injection of £2.75 million, (€3.15m) and is re-branding to Base79. The cash injection was led by MMC Ventures, and will assist the firm’s international expansion. Based in London and New York, the company manages content for companies and artists including the Football Association, Mr Bean and […]
Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN), the world’s largest religious broadcaster, has confirmed launch of iTBN, a new 24/7 online service that brings the best of TBN’s programming – past and present – to one convenient website. In addition, iTBN includes on-demand viewing categories for Christian music, shows for teens and much more. It even allows viewers […]
Getting its defence in early, Google has said it would be unworkable for it to block entire sites. In a speech to the Royal Television Society on Wednesday it has been widely trailed that UK culture secretary Jeremy Hunt will call on search engines, ISPs and transaction companies to play a more active role in […]
AOL and RealNetworks, the digital entertainment services company, have formed an agreement in which AOL UK will provide its content to users of RealNetwork’s RealPlayer . RealNetworks says the new offering with AOL will allow it to invest further in its suite of digital products, as well as continuing to innovate and create applications and […]
On Wednesday, Jeremy Hunt, Culture Secretary, is expected to pile on the pressure to ISPs to block pirate sites. He will exhort them to make ‘life more difficult’ for online pirates telling an audience of media executives that internet companies, advertisers and credit card firms should do more to clamp down on alleged rogue websites. […]
Italian news and information channel Class TV MSNBC is relaunching with a new schedule based on hit movies and TV series from the USA, together with a selection of locally produced series. Thanks to an agreement with NBC Universal, ClassTV MSNBC will offer an attractive prime time line-up, including movies from major American directors. The […]