Video Sharing Websites such as YouTube and Revver and any sites that are involved with showing or delivering video clips
An allegation of rape or other sexual assault is a very serious business, and can lead to a stigma being attached to both the alleged victim and attacker.
Which means the fact that people are starting to use YouTube as well as social networks such as MySpace and Facebook to make these kinds of allegations very worrying indeed.
NBC Direct has been with us now since last November, when it launched as a beta to offer a download service to those people who wanted to catch up with NBC shows.
Working in a similar way to the hugely popular BBC iPlayer, the service promised much but delivered little. And unfortunately, six months down the line that still seems to be the case.
Ars Technica decided the service was worth a second look now after NBC has had months to improve the process and system, and also add more content to the woefully small amount that was formerly available.
However, it seems that the service has got worse if anything, with less content available, DRM issues still rife, and problems getting the service up and running in the first place.
It’s been well known for a while that many ISPs around the world have been messing with the flow of BitTorrent traffic in an effort to counter piracy.
It’s also been well known that amongst those ISPs, one of the worst culprits for blocking file sharing traffic is Comcast, one of the largest Internet Service Providers in the US.
However, until now, exact data as to how and when this was being done has been unavailable, and Comcast itself told the FCC in February that it was only done during periods of heavy network traffic.
Now, thanks to a tool developed by the Max Planck Institute, that data is now available, and the first statistics to be released show that Comcast actually blocks BitTorrent traffic 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Online video is continuing to grow, a fact those of us who keep an eye on the goings on in the industry already knew, but which has now been proven by statistics.
The stats in question this time come from Comscore, and cover the month of March. The figures show that there were 11.5 billion video views during the month, an increase from February and a new record to boot.
Before March, the previous highest amount of video views in any one month was the 10.15 billion achieved last December, but that figure has now been roundly beaten.
Just two days ago, the makers of successful Web series KateModern confused everyone by cancelling the show at the height of its popularity.
It was announced that the final ever episode of the show will be broadcast on social network Bebo in June. This is despite the show achieving an average audience of 1.5 million viewers per episode.
However, with the announcement that the creators (Miles Beckett and Greg Goodfried) new company EQAL has done a deal with American TV network CBS, the decision becomes somewhat clearer.
With Web video becoming an increasingly popular medium, it was only a matter of time before it came to an instant messaging service, with Microsoft taking the lead.
Messenger TV is a service available to all users of Windows Live Messenger, and allows them to share videos on MSN Video with all of their IM contacts.
To coincide with the release of Messenger TV, Microsoft has done deals with EMI and Channel 4 to provide content via MSN Video.
A deal between HBO and Apple to get content on to iTunes has been rumoured for a few days now, but has finally been announced and already begun in a joint statement by both companies.
The deal sees some of the most popular HBO shows, including The Sopranos, Sex and the City, Deadwood and Rome, Flight of the Conchords and The Wire appear on iTunes from today.
The first show to become available through the service is Sex and the City, with all 94 episodes, or six seasons now open to purchase in anticipation of the movie version of the now cancelled show starring Sarah Jessica Parker coming out on May 30th.
None of the programmes will become available through iTunes until after they have been released on DVD, which is HBO’s way of protecting their home video profit.
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