The mess surrounding P2P file sharing is getting ever more incredible, complicated, and well, messy.

So much so that we simply couldn’t resist sharing the latest news bytes about the subject with you.

One involves a surprising play by an anti-Net-neutrality party against a particular ISP’s unsavory actions. 

Another has to do with the RIAA and its seriously disturbing efforts to put into law – vicariously through American legislators, of course – a higher education bill (you may view the corresponding PDF here).

This will give the recording industry alliance the option to exercise power over the distribution of federal financial aid to universities and colleges based on the efforts (or lack thereof) of said educational institutions to halt peer-to-peer traffic on their networks and market legal alternatives to their respective student bodies.

Now, clearly the second development trumps the first in terms of its implications, so we’ll start things off with the story #1 (if only to butter you up), which appears to pit seemingly like-minded entities against one another. With both entities standing opposite the pro-Net-neutrality parade, the news of the dispute is very intriguing indeed.

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Bullying can take many forms, and since the evolution of the web, it has even become a problem online, with many bullying campaigns being fought through social networks and beyond.

We’ve all seen it happen, and some of us may even have been unfortunate enough to have experienced it ourselves one or more times in our youth.

For some of the global population, the horror can even continue into the stretch of taxpaying careerdom.

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Quarterlife is the new Web drama about twenty somethings, created by Ed Zwick and Marshall Herskovitz.

There were rumours even before the U.S. writers strike started that it might lead to one of the networks picking up Quarterlife, which has been written and produced by the team behind Thirtysomething and My So-Called Life, and now it appears that those rumours have come true. 

The series has been getting mostly positive reviews after its première last week, a fact which has obviously helped it move from the web to mainstream TV.

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If you’ve ever needed a guide on how to integrate video on the web, and have wanted all of the information in a book on your coffee table, then the following could be a perfect buy.

Lisa Larson and Renee Costantini have written a new book titled ‘Flash Video for Professionals: Expert Techniques for Integrating Video on the Web’.

The book provides a framework and the professional solutions to make custom Flash video more accessible to those with intermediate programming skills. 

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Television has always been traditionally distributed by cable or satellite systems, but now a new pretender to the throne to be the media of choice has stormed in and broken the party up.

Internet television or IPTV uses the Internet to deliver video from a source to a target device such as a Web browser or set-top box.

Joost, VeohTV, WiTV, Babelgum and, most recently, Microsoft Internet TV are some of the prominent players jostling for market share in this rapidly emerging space. 

Additionally, sites such as YouTube Mobile and MySpace TV, two top online destinations, will continue to drive traffic and generate demand for online/mobile video consumption.  (Brightcove has a good summary of why Internet TV matters.)

The recent public beta of Joost, a raising star in this space, has generated a fair share of media coverage about the realities of Internet TV.  

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Who here remembers the good old View-Master?  How about family vacation slides on a slide projector?  Come on, put your hands up at the back, don’t be embarrassed. 

Okay, I’m dating myself, but the point is there are always current and future emerging technologies driven by personal and home entertainment needs. 

In today’s context, the advent of online videos has dramatically compressed the time between technologies and increased our options. 

The result is not only the lack of a central point or device to view videos but the advancement of anywhere, any time and any business model fuelled by the marketplace.

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All the way back in September, we brought you word of Quarterlife, a new Internet television series which would début in November. And as of last week, it was released on to the world.

Quarterlife has had just short of two weeks to make some first impressions with the public – and the press – and, quite surprisingly the show, produced by Hollywood notables Ed Zwick and Marshall Herskovitz, has managed to nab itself some fairly good reviews. 

Some bad ones have cropped up - one published yesterday in The New York Times is an example - but not too many, so one could safely argue for overall critical acclaim rather than critical vilification.

Well, here comes another few good words. Not so much about the content of the project, of course, so much as the project itself. 

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