Dive into the archives.
- RiP, Snag, Friends, and Followers: Quick Hits
Some recent news of note:
RiP: A Remix Manifesto premiered at SXSW and has been ‘picked up’ in the US by B-Side, whose DIY model will presumably avert some of the bigger copyright issues that might be a problem for regular distributors.
Snag! Films has made a deal with Hulu to place films on that site. This begs the question for filmmakers of whether, when they license their film to one online market, they are permitting that company to resell their film elsewhere (presumably cutting into whatever revenue there might be). It’s probably a good idea… [more]
- HBO’s digital strategy- “cautious”
I didn’t pick this up last month when it was going down, but in mid-July, Sean Atkins, SVP of HBO Digital Media, ankled the company. This comes only a year after he was hired from Yahoo! and HBO fired almost the entire Digital Media team that had been based in LA (the office subsequently moved to NYC).
What’s interesting about this story is that unlike many other big media companies, HBO has really not gone full-force into digital, preferring to use the web for marketing and promotion of their broadcast programming rather than for content delivery.
The question for a… [more]
- Sony’s “Open Market” could open the Digital Market- a little
TechCrunch reports today on a move by the major studios to protect digital media through a DRM scheme called Open Market. Rather than bow to the the individual protections of a single retailer, otherwise known as iTunes, the studios are working with about 30 different retailers and portals, including Amazon, Best Buy, Direct TV, Time Warner Cable, T-Mobile, Target, Wal-Mart, and others to create a system whereby any digital media available through the participating companies would be subject to third party encryption that would only work on registered devices. (Essentially, you could only play the movie on a device… [more]
- News Round-Up 6/5/08
Updates from around the nets:Time Warner Cable has created tiered broadband pricing. After 40G of downloads, you will pay extra. An alternative perhaps to net-favouritism strategies like slowing traffic, the plan may impinge the flow of BitTorrent and other piracy-laden file sharing methods. On the other hand, coming just at a time when the market for media online is about to break, the strategy could have retarding consequences. But won’t some other company just come along and offer unlimited access and grab TW’s customer base? I guess they aren’t worried.Netflix expects… [more]
