Nearly half of people in France download film and music illegally, according to a study by the anti-internet piracy body, Hadopi. The study found that only one third of users were prepared to change and migrate to legal sites but piracy was not slowing down and methods were diversifying, the report found. It believes piracy […]
The Spanish government has watered down parts of its anti-Internet piracy bill in a move designed to win opposition support. The Conservative Popular Party and a Catalan nationalist group have now agreed to back the bill when it goes to the Senate on February the 9th. Culture Minister Ángeles González Sinde has conceded that individual […]
France Telecom’s Orange has revealed that it is in exclusive negotiations with Dailymotion, the world’s second largest online video site, with a view to taking a 49 per cent share in the operation. Once complete, the deal, valued at €58.8 million, will provide Orange with the opportunity to develop a complete multi-screen video offer From […]
Modern Times Group is talking with ProSiebenSat.1, about the sale of its European TV and radio group SBS. Valuations on the group go between €1 billion and €1.5 billion. Swedish Modern Times Group is looking specifically at SBS’s Scandinavian business. Holland’s The Telegraaf Media Group, is understood to be interested in the local TV operations […]
Online video management service thePlatform and Adobe Systems have confirmed an alliance aimed at providing enhanced solutions for the delivery of online and mobile content with secure video management and publishing services for media publishers utilising the Adobe Flash Platform. The pair will integrate thePlatform’s mpx video management system with the Adobe Flash Platform leveraging […]
NDS has announced that Sky Deutschland has launched Common Interface Plus (CI+) modules based on the NDS VideoGuard conditional access (CA) system. The recently launched modules fully support all Sky programming including Sky’s HD channels. The modules will be supplied in cooperation with select device manufacturers. Gerry Duffy, Senior Vice President of Technology at Sky […]
Communications minister Ed Vaizey has introduced secondary legislation aimed at enforce anti-piracy plans in the Digital Economy Act, passed shortly before the May General Election. The ‘Sharing of Costs Order’ covers the cost of letters sent to those suspected of piracy, as well as prosecution and appeal costs. These will be split between media rights […]
Publishers must get their content onto connected TVs “before it’s too late”, says former YouView chief technology officer Anthony Rose. Talking to the Association of Online Publishers he said, “In this matter, you can’t be too early, if you wait too long, all the good territory will have been staked out and taken.” He predicted […]
Another broadcaster has admitted suffered a major hack of its transmissions. This time it’s Austria’s public broadcaster ORF use of the Cryptoworks encryption system, initially developed by Philips but now owned by Irdeto. Widespread hacking of ORF’s AustriaSat HDTV transmissions was reported at the end of December, and earlier in January on German and Austrian […]
IP Vision has revealed that leading health and fitness channel Fitness TV is the latest addition to its FetchTV platform, the UK’s first commercial hybrid OTT/IPTV service for consumers. Fitness TV is available immediately to FetchTV viewers for just £1.99 per month as well as via pay-per-view on demand. Fitness TV is the UK’s first […]