Cable companies were ticked off when "cut the cord" became a rallying cry in 2009, with disgruntled consumers vowing to cancel their expensive TV plans in favor of cheaper options -- namely, Netflix.
The turn of the 21st century was rife with bitter anti-piracy lawsuits pitting studios against their potential customers, with music labels banding together to blast Napster -- and its massive user base -- to smithereens.
Netflix streaming movies now fill more of the U.S.'s internet tubes than any other service, including peer-to-peer file sharing, which long held the top spot -- to the consternation of Hollywood.
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski outlined two new principles Monday that represent big steps toward net neutrality -- prompting a plethora of online reaction.
The Pirate Bay -- the BitTorrent tracker revered by file sharers across the globe and reviled by some of the world's biggest entertainment companies -- is under siege like never before.
Wiring the nation for high-speed Internet access is an ambitious plan...so ambitious that the the government's servers slowed to a crawl last week from the influx of interest.
If mention of The Pirate Bay conjures up images of parrots, peg legs and planks, or geeky jargon like BitTorrent and jailbreak leaves you all at sea, this handy A-Z will help you navigate the choppy waters of the online piracy debate.
Something remarkable happened on Thursday - an Internet service provider and a peer-to-peer software company announced a collaboration and agreed to work together.
Comcast Corp., an Internet service provider under investigation for hampering online file-sharing by its subscribers, announced Thursday an about-face in its stance and said it will treat all types of Internet traffic equally.
By grabbing small pieces of big files from multiple computers simultaneously, BitTorrent became the fastest -- and most popular -- way to share large stuff like music and movies among PCs. Now a Malaysian company is setting up a similar peer-to-peer system for cell phones. Singapore-based mBit, a subsidiary of Malaysian tech firm mTouche, wants to sell its BitTorrent-like M-Bit service to 3G and 4G providers across Asia.
One thing that's easy for we Internet partisans to forget is how little time people spend online, even still. For all our legitimate passion about the connected age, Web 2.0, user empowerment, social networking, etc., the fact remains that most people worldiwde still spend vastly more of their media time watching TV.
Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis aren't used to competition like this. The maverick duo that rocked the telecom and music industries with their Internet startups Skype and Kazaa are now trying to s...
Several Internet companies have gone public since Google did back in 2004. But none has made the kind of splash that Google has.
File-sharing company BitTorrent has announced a slew of partnerships with major film and TV studios, allowing it to sell in-demand titles like "South Park" and "SpongeBob Squarepants."
Fortune: On the radarupdated: Wed Aug 02 2006 15:45:00
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Warner Bros. movie studios struck a deal Monday to let some of its top films be sold through online site Guba.com, its second agreement involving technology companies that once threatened to destroy it.
Lots of people think they have the toughest job in Hollywood. Tom Cruise's publicist. The EMT on the Jackass set. The guy who played Gollum in the Lord of the Rings movies.
I dined in London last week with three friends considerably hipper (and younger) than myself. It was a mind-meld between four guys all convinced the world is changing really fast and that the Internet is the reason.
Lots of people think they have the toughest job in Hollywood. Tom Cruise's publicist. The EMT on the "Jackass" set. The guy who played Gollum in the "Lord of the Rings" movies.
SAN FRANCISCO (Business 2.0 Magazine) - Thanks to record-label lawsuits and spyware scares, file-sharing has a bad reputation among consumers. But three startups are nevertheless betting that they can harness the technology to solve a growing problem: Conveniently sharing photos and home videos with friends and family.
SAN FRANCISCO (Business 2.0 Magazine) - The venture capitalists behind Skype are placing a new bet on AllPeers, a startup based in Oxford, England.
Most movie studio executives are probably glad that 2005 is finally over.
Business 2.0: Friendlier File Sharingupdated: Thu Dec 01 2005 00:01:00
Has Hollywood found a peer-to-peer system it can live with? In December, the erstwhile media-industry migraine known as BitTorrent will unveil a beta version of its online video marketplace with th...
Fortune: Torrential Reignupdated: Mon Oct 31 2005 00:01:00
FOR TWO YEARS AFTER THE DOT-COM CRASH, BRAM COHEN COULD almost always be found at his small dining-room table, first in San Francisco's Nob Hill and later in Oakland. His long brown hair would flop...
There is no reason why Bram Cohen, the brains behind BitTorrent software, should still be in business.
CNNMoney: Feds bite BitTorrentupdated: Wed May 25 2005 16:05:00
Federal agents launched a crackdown on users of a popular new technology used to steal the latest "Star Wars" movie and other large data files off the Internet, immigration officials announced Wednesday.
BitTorrent has been described as Hollywood's Napster -- a sinister software that makes it easy to steal movies off the Internet. And just like the recording industry response to the Napster scourge years ago, movie studios today are determined to stamp out BitTorrent.
Shortly after Hollywood launched a major offensive against Internet pirates last month, two popular Web sites for stealing movies shut down.
The Motion Picture Association of America announced a new campaign aimed at slowing the illegal downloading of movies off the Internet.
Can the Supreme Court help Hollywood put an evil genie back in the bottle?
A evil genie that pops out of a bottle sounds like Hollywood fiction. But for the movie industry, the specter is not fantasy -- it's real.
Blizzard Entertainment knew what it was in for when it announced in March that fans of its Warcraft computer games could download an online role-playing version for testing: 100,000 would-be orc ki...
More than 17 million Americans have stopped downloading music over the Internet following a recent crackdown on the practice, according to a new survey.
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