Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Hollywood’s How-To Guide to Web Piracy
Want to learn how to steal your favorite movie or TV show? A 10-minute video starring a Paramount executive offers detailed instructions.
Friday, June 19, 2009
Here’s One Way to Get People to Pay for Music: Labels Win $2 Million Verdict in Downloading Trial
Don’t want to pay $1 for a song on iTunes? Try $80,000 a pop. That’s what a federal jury in Minneapolis has told a woman to pay the music industry for illegally downloading 24 songs, bringing her total bill to $1.92 million. Her response: “Good luck trying to get it, because you can’t get blood out of a turnip.”
Tuesday, June 9, 2009
Survey Says: Web Video Watchers Aren’t Pirates. But They May Be Ready to Cut the Cable Cord
Web video watchers are college kids who spend all day pirating movies and TV shows, right? Well, maybe some of them are, but new survey data argues ordinary Americans are plenty comfortable watching TV online, especially when they don’t have any other choice.
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Another Down Quarter for Disney, but Cable’s OK
A bad quarter for Disney, but it could have been worse–at least Wall Street was expecting it. After factoring out one-time charges and write-offs, Bob Iger and company earned 43 cents a share on revenues of $8.1 billion. Wall Street had been looking for 40 cents and $8.15 billion, respectively. The bright spot for the entertainment conglomerate is the same one you see at every media giant these days: Disney’s cable business.
Monday, April 6, 2009
News Corp. Gives a “Wolverine” Review a Thumbs Down. Way, Way Down.
Fox News columnist Roger Friedman loves the new “X-Men” movie with Hugh Jackson. But his employers hate his review, which is based on an unfinished version that leaked to the Web last week. It may cost him his job.
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
AT&T Starts Wrist-Slapping Music Pirates, Gently. But Movie and TV Thieves Will Be a Different Story.
Late last year, the music industry announced that it was going to stop suing music pirates because it had finally gotten Internet pipe companies to help it crack down on file “sharers.” One problem: None of the big cable or telco guys would fess up to joining the plan. Now AT&T finally has–in a very limited, toe-in-the-water, we’re-just-testing-this-out way.
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