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Hollywood gives blessing to BitTorrent store
News Despite the reputation of BitTorrent's software for helping people illegally share millions of unauthorised video files, company managers have convinced studios such as 20th Century Fox, Lions Gate and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios that the company... [26 Feb 2007]
Minority Report: Apple in your living room
Comment By comparison the recent Unbox movie download service from Amazon has a catalogue of well over 1,000 movies and TV shows from six major Hollywood studios and several independent studios and TV networks. [09 Oct 2006]
AOL moves into movie downloads
News For the Hollywood studios, faced with digital piracy of their products, it is an acknowledgment of the need for online distribution. Online programming services like AOL's video portal have the potential to become a major distribution stream for... [25 Aug 2006]
Hollywood ready for DVD burning
News The reason for this is that Hollywood studios feared downloads would be easily pirated. The latest move by the DVD CCA fits with Hollywood's overall strategy to combat piracy by offering consumers a legal, inexpensive and convenient way to obtain... [11 Aug 2006]
BitTorrent cuddles up to movie studios
News Once distrustful of peer-to-peer technologies, Hollywood studios appear more willing to partner with companies such as BitTorrent and video-sharing site Guba.com, which last month partnered with Warner Bros to distribute movie titles. [11 Jul 2006]
Hollywood buddies up with Bram Cohen
News Hollywood studios announced an agreement with Bram Cohen, the creator of the popular BitTorrent file-swapping technology, that will keep him from helping users find pirated copies of movies online. As a result, he has not been the target of... [23 Nov 2005]
Is Apple about to take on the video market?
Apple must strike a deal with Hollywood executives, who worry about copyright protection on the Internet and don't want to jeopardise DVD sales, which outpace sales at the box office. They cite Jobs' leadership in digital music as well as his... [21 Jul 2005]
Is BBC trumping Hollywood with free video?
Comment With plans afoot to distribute video content free of charge to Britons over the internet, is the BBC taking a smarter course than Hollywood? But it's not all bad news for Hollywood. I'm encouraging people in the movie industry to look at these... [19 May 2005]
Winning over the file sharers
For now, however, Cdigix, which has a presence on 21 campuses, may be the closest thing to a bridge between campuses and Hollywood's version of acceptable movie watching. For their part, the Hollywood studios aren't yet proffering the same deals... [06 Apr 2005]
Hollywood studios to sue UK man over BitTorrent site?
News A UK man who runs a website that once supported the BitTorrent peer-to-peer file-sharing application is facing the threat of being sued by four major US movie studios. Some people who ran BitTorrent tracker servers have closed them down in the face... [21 Mar 2005]
Check your kids' computers for file-swapping
News Hollywood studios filed a second round of lawsuits against online movie-swappers last week, stepping up legal pressure on the file-trading community. The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) also made available a new free software tool so... [31 Jan 2005]
Kazaa's man in Washington speaks out
I think everyone understands by now that the RIAA and Hollywood in particular have really been involved in a vicious, inaccurate smear campaign against peer-to-peer technology over the last two years. [06 Dec 2004]
Movie downloads on the way from AOL
News Titles offered for download include Hollywood hits such as Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl. America Online will launch a promotion Wednesday that lets its members download full-feature films through Movielink for 99 cents a... [21 Jan 2004]
Punishing UK downloaders 'will alienate customers'
News Mulligan, for one, says it would be a mistake for Hollywood and television executives to embark on a legal crackdown against this consumer segment, which could some day be a media company's best customers. [18 Sep 2003]
Sony unit to trial content with a 'consume by' date
News Major movie studios in Hollywood are also turning up the heat, joining forces in a slew of lawsuits against US-based DVD copying software makers like DVDBackupbuddy.com and DVDSqueeze.com. However, allowing downloads of movie files opens the door... [30 May 2003]
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