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.

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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.

Summary: 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:

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.

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.

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

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.