Illegal video downloads are 5 times more common than legal video downloads

Posted on Wednesday 27 December 2006

Video Downloads

According to a recent study from NDP group, a consumer and retail information company, the number of legally downloaded videos online are outnumbered 5 to 1 by illegal downloaded videos from P2P networks and BitTorrent sites.

Some quick facts:

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Chris Tew @ 1:28 pm
Filed under: Legal, DRM, Piracy & IP and News and Video Distribution
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Posted on Sunday 24 December 2006

So much news, so little time…

Ericsson and Redback

Swedish telecom giant Ericsson will acquire Silicon Valley’s Redback Networks, which produces routing equipment, in response to Cisco’s recent efforts to gain momentum in the IPTV sector.

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Chris Tew @ 2:20 pm
Filed under: News
Sneak Preview of The Venice Project | The Future of Web TV

Posted on Thursday 21 December 2006

The Venice ProjectSummary: I’ve managed to get some thorough information (including screenshots) on the highly anticipated Venice Project — now known as JOOST — that opened its doors last week to private beta testers. By all accounts the Venice Project still has some way to go and while it looks promising it was in many ways also disappointing. Despite this I’m personally very excited about what the Skype and Kazaa founders are bringing to the table with the Venice Project.

After chatting with someone who tested out The Venice Project here is what I found out:

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Philips developing video fingerprinting technology to prevent pirated videos on YouTube type sites

Posted on Wednesday 20 December 2006

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Philips, the company that was not so long ago criticized for its patent that would stop advert skipping on DVRs, is now developing anti piracy technology that will help online video sites restrict use of copyrighted video.

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Chris Tew @ 9:14 am
Filed under: Legal, DRM, Piracy & IP and News and Philips
Chinese Government promises to help fight online piracy

Posted on Tuesday 19 December 2006

Chinese Flag

The Chinese Government has recently signed a memorandum of understanding with a number of media industry associations to help fight piracy and protect online copyright. The industry associations involved are the Motion Picture Association of America, the Business Software Alliance, the Association of American Publishers and the Publishers Association of the UK.

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Chris Tew @ 12:48 pm
Filed under: Legal, DRM, Piracy & IP and News
Interview with Ade Thomas, the Managing Director of Green.tv | The environmental Internet TV station

Posted on Monday 18 December 2006

Green TV Logo

What better use of the new internet TV medium than using it to promote environmental issues. Green.tv is doing just that by bringing a variety of environmental videos onto the internet through its unique website and video player. The video player is able to automatically detect the best plug-in you have and will play in Flash, WMP or Quicktime

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PSV-351 | Simple reusable portable video camera for amateurs | perfect for YouTube

Posted on Sunday 17 December 2006

PSV-351 video camera

The PSV-351 is the follow on from Pure Digital’s disposable video camera from last year, except this time around it is reusable. The camera has been built with the user generated internet video phenomenon in mind.

The 512MB PSV-351 is a very amateur friendly camera being a cheap device which is very easy to use with only a few nice big buttons for fat hands. Being small, cheap and easy to use makes a perfect companion for “spare of the moment” video shots for any amateur documentary, reality TV show, or news program. Its not the highest quality video but more than sufficient for internet video.

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Chris Tew @ 5:17 pm
Filed under: Video Editing & Production