Audio/Video

Did you miss out on VLC Player for iOS?

The popular video player port was on the App Store for three months before being removed in January 2011 because Apple’s FairPlay wrapper violated VideoLAN’s licensing agreement.

Fear not, there’s a solution to replace the venerable open-source video player on iOS. GPlayer (free, App Store) supports playback of numerous file formats, including: XVID/DIVX AVI, WMV, RMVB, ASF, H264, MKV, TS, M2TS, and more. You can sync videos via USB or Wi-Fi and it supports TV-out and AirPlay.

Research by mobile device management firm Zenprise found that Angry Birds was the most-blacklisted application among users enrolled in its Zencloud MDM service. Other mobile apps that companies blocked their employees from using at work include Facebook, Google Play, Dropbox, YouTube and Skype, Zenprise found. Interestingly, Zenprise also found that Skype was the most whitelisted app among its customers, thus making it the top app to appear on companies' blacklists and whitelists. 

Hackers shut down a United States online video company on Wednesday that was being used by Russian activists to stream live video of protests in Moscow, prompting the company’s leaders to launch a Russian-language version of the site.

After filing a lawsuit against 24,583 individuals who allegedly downloaded the Oscar-winning film "The Hurt Locker," movie studio Voltage Pictures is at it again. This time, in a new lawsuit, they've added about 2,500 other alleged BitTorrent users to its list, according to TorrentFreak.

YouTube must filter content uploaded by users, a German court ruled Friday.

YouTube was taken to court for copyright infringement in uploaded videos by German music royalty collecting society GEMA, which said that the Google-owned video site isn't doing enough to block copyright-protected music videos.

L33tdawg: Nevermind your Internet connected TV, Adam Gowdiak has something far scarier in mind - malware on your digital TV set top box! Details of which will be released next month at HITBSecConf2012 - Amsterdam.  

The Motion Picture Association of America is squaring off against a coalition of Internet giants and public interest groups over the key question of whether it's possible to directly infringe copyright by embedding an image or video hosted by a third party. 

France's three-strikes anti-piracy law is one of the strictest in the world. It employs private companies to scan file-sharing networks for copyright infringement and sends warnings to pirates if they're caught red-handed. The law, enforced by a French authority called Hadopi, was instated 17 months ago to the applause of music copyright holders and their representatives.

News Corporation boss Rupert Murdoch says he is preparing to "hit back" at what he describes as the "lies" directed towards his business and the BBC and the Australian Financial Review both alleged that News Corp has been involved in sabotaging its pay television competitors. 

The London region's impending switch to all-digital TV will leave more than one million household sets blank, according to the body leading the process.

Digital UK said over one in ten households still has a television that receives analogue signal, despite the fact that the switchover is due to get underway next Wednesday (April 4th 2012).