The Pirate Bay, one of the largest and most controversial sites for downloading copyrighted materials via BitTorrent, confirmed today that they are preparing to launch a video streaming site. Some people are speculating that it will be YouTube without the DMCA take down notices, because those notices will simply be ignored. The service will likely launch at thevideobay.org.
Joost, the Internet TV company founded by Europe's top Web entrepreneurs, has taken a big step towards commercial viability by signing up 31 advertisers worldwide ahead of the launch of its free service.
The company, aiming to become a new kind of global cable TV network on the Web, was started last year by Niklas Zennstrom and partner Janus Friis, founders of Web phone company Skype, now owned by eBay, and music-sharing site Kazaa.
NBC Universal and News Corp. joined forces Thursday with several major Internet companies to distribute TV shows, video clips and movies online in an effort to better control their programming and counter competition from YouTube.
The new network, which would launch this summer, comes in response to the explosive growth Google Inc.'s YouTube, a do-it-yourself video-sharing site that is being sued by Viacom Inc., another major media company, for copyright infringement.
Once you've sold a company for $2.6 billion, life on the beach can be tempting, particularly if you're Scandinavian. But for dotcom veterans Janus Friis, 30, and Niklas Zennstrom, 40, whose sale of Skype to eBay rocketed them toward Gatesian wealth, the lure of a Great Leap Backward has proved stronger than sun and sand.
A hacker claims to have discovered a cryptographic key that can be used to circumvent copy restrictions on HD DVD and Blu-ray movies.
The key, which was published Sunday on the Doom9.org discussion forum, is a further step toward undermining the next-generation AACS (Advanced Access Content System) encryption system used to copy-protect high-definition media.
The hacker, going by the name of Arnezami, said he discovered the key by examining what was happening in his computer's memory while it processed an HD-DVD video.
Do you ever find yourself humming a song whose title, to your frustration, you don't know or can't remember? New search Web site Midomi is designed to actually identify that song for you in as little as ten seconds.
A Brazilian court ordered the popular video sharing service YouTube, a unit of Internet search provider Google, to be shut down until it removes a celebrity sex video from its site, a judicial clerk said Thursday.
Daniela Cicarelli, a model and ex-wife of soccer great Ronaldo, sued YouTube after a video of her apparently having sex in shallow water on a beach with her boyfriend was posted to the site.
For days it was the most viewed video in Brazil.
Web search leader Google Inc. is hiring scores of radio sales people and is spending heavily in a bid to expand its position in the $20 billion radio industry.
Google spokesman Michael Mayzel said this week that the company will begin a public test of Google Audio Ads by the end of the year. Advertisers will be able to go online and sign up for targeted radio ads using the same AdWords system they use to buy Web search ads.
Google is generally testing its ability to move into offline media, this week saying it would help customers buy advertisements in 50 U.S. newspapers.
The video footage from HITBSecConf2006 - Malaysia is now available for download from the BBC website.
The show is called 'Click' and the clip was featured in the October 7th show. For those of you who get BBC television on your cable or tv subscription, you can tune in to the show at the following times (the times listed below are for subscribers of Astro. TV schedule and listings in your area may differ):
Wednesday - 11th October 2006 - 20:30 MYT (GMT +8)
Friday - 13th October 2006 - 17:30 MYT (GMT +8)
RealNetworks has taken the wraps off Rhapsody 4.0, an enhanced version of its digital music service designed for specially optimised MP3 players.
The company also announced the first line of Rhapsody DNA-based MP3 players from SanDisk.
The Sansa e200R Rhapsody players, available in capacities ranging from 2GB to 8GB, come equipped with over 30 hours of pre-loaded music.
New features of the Rhapsody software include Channels, which provide hours of music based on a particular genre or artist or the user's own music tastes.
