movie studios
YouTube wants a slice of the feature film pie
News YouTube wants to offer movie rentals and is in talks with several top film studios about obtaining licences to stream feature films on a rental basis. YouTube is discussing the service with Sony... [03 Sep 2009]
A new media world: Napster's 10-year anniversary
Comment Too bad the music labels, movie studios and others couldn't get in agreement faster to create a paid version. Ten years after the launch of digital music upstart Napster, Gartner analyst Mike McGuire... [03 Jun 2009]
Photos: The power behind a 3D alien invasion
Photo Monsters and aliens will be leaping out of movie screens across the UK this weekend - courtesy of some serious processing power. Staging an explosion in one of the battle scenes required more than three terabytes of disk... [31 Mar 2009]
"There's no credit crunch in Second Life"
Comment In the last few weeks I've even heard about movie studios creating sets in-world to plan scenes and logistics before building on a real-life sound stage. The hype surrounding virtual worlds a year ago... [23 Oct 2008]
TorrentSpy out of luck in email hacking suit
News A lawsuit filed last year by TorrentSpy - a BitTorrent search engine - that accused the movie studios' trade group of intercepting the company's private emails, was tossed out of court last week. The... [29 Aug 2007]
Top-Flight Modeling Agency Empowers Workers With Office Business Application
White Paper Legendary in the fashion world for debuting supermodels, Elite Model Management represents 800 models worldwide to designers, beauty product firms, magazines, and movie studios. While Elite's models get... [22 May 2007]
Hollywood gives blessing to BitTorrent store
News Depending on connection speed, BitTorrent president Ashwin Navin said it should be able to deliver movie downloads to users "faster than a pizza delivery". Despite the reputation of BitTorrent's software for helping... [26 Feb 2007]
Google accused of helping P2P pirates
News The search giant is not named as a defendant in the lawsuit, which was filed by a group of major movie studios against two owners of sites such as EasyDownloadCenter.com and TheDownloadPlace.com. Google... [13 Feb 2007]
Cisco taps into social-networking trend
News This will become critical for big media companies, such as the movie studios and television networks, as they continue to move their content onto the internet. Cisco Systems is making its first move... [09 Feb 2007]
Skype founders christen web TV venture
News Another threat could come from the growing number of sites that offer top cable and movie channels without permission. The plan, according to Joost CEO Fredrik de Wahl, is to offer studios, cable... [16 Jan 2007]
BitTorrent to pimp the silver screen?
News The deal comes at a time when Hollywood is looking for a winning internet movie strategy. BitTorrent's announcement comes a day after Wal-Mart Stores, the world's largest retailer, launched its own movie... [29 Nov 2006]
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... [09 Oct 2006]
Microsoft grapples with mystery DRM cracker
News That has long been part of the technology's draw for record labels and movie studios, which are fearful that content protection flaws will lead to films and music being swapped freely online. One service... [27 Sep 2006]
Steve Jobs
AS Profile It's a testament to Jobs' clout that he's already had some success in getting movie studios - who have been traditionally sceptical about that whole 'interweb downloading thingy' - to commit their content. [25 Sep 2006]
Apple uncloaks iTunes movie downloads
News The studios are Miramax, Pixar Animation Studios, Touchstone Pictures and Walt Disney Pictures. Movies from four studios owned by The Walt Disney Company will be available on iTunes 7,... [13 Sep 2006]