Media conglomerate Viacom is suing Google for $1 billion dollars, arguing that YouTube’s business is built on ripping off other people’s work: “YouTube is a significant, for-profit organization that has built a lucrative business out of exploiting the devotion of fans to others’ creative works in order to enrich itself and its corporate parent Google. […]

Apple CEO Steve Jobs posted a surprising statement on the company’s site today, challenging the music industry to abandon DRM (copy protection) on digital music downloads. Jobs outlines three possible futures for digital music: Continue as is it is now, with each manufacturer competing freely with their own “top to bottom” proprietary systems for selling, playing and protecting music. […]

Ars Technica has an good overview of a new bill introduced in the US Senate this week that would force satellite, digital, and Internet radio providers to implement measures designed to restrict the ability of listeners to record audio from the services. Called the “Platform Equality and Remedies for Rights Holders in Music Act” (PERFORM), […]

No one seems to have noticed this in the rush to cover the iPhone, but Steve Jobs seems to have completely blown off Mac users at MacWorld this year. There were no announcements of new Macintosh computers. There were no updates of Mac OS X. No mention of iLife updates. Apple didn’t even announce any […]

It’s Carl Sagan day – the tenth anniversary of Carl Sagan’s death, and blogger Joel Schlosberg is leading a Carl Sagan Memorial Blog-a-Thon that’s already proving to be very popular. If you’re not familiar with Carl Sagan, it’s likely that you weren’t alive in 1980 when his acclaimed television series Cosmos hit the airwaves. Cosmos […]

Microsoft invited a small group of influential bloggers to their Redmond campus Thursday for an hour long one-on-one with Bill Gates, as part of Microsoft’s Mix n’ Mash ’07 event. In doing so, Gates demonstrated how to use bloggers to pwn the media: Invite a group of influential bloggers Pay their expenses Give them free […]

Some users had reported trouble recently using our main feed (https://www.podcasting-news.com/feed/) with Google Reader. We contacted Google and got a response that they would look into it. The issue appears to now be resolved: Thanks to Mike K. and others for bringing this to our attention.

An editorial at MercuryNews.com (registration) argues that, as the popularity of Internet video booms, the popularity of amateur content will give way to big media. “Whenever a new technology makes personal expression easier, from desktop publishing in the 1980s to video sharing in 2006, denizens of Silicon Valley leap to the same conclusion: Finally, amateurs […]

MarketingShift is reporting that podcasting’s 15 minutes of fame is almost up. “Podcasting probably will never become an ‘impact media’ like online video or satellite radio, and deservedly so,” says MarketingShift’s John Gartner. “The multitude of independent podcasters will scratch and claw for the occasional hour when people want to hear about a niche of […]

Steve Rubel at Micro Persuasion is wondering Why Yahoo is backing away from RSS. “Has anyone noticed that Yahoo’s love affair with RSS seems to be withering?” asks Rubel. “In the past few weeks Yahoo has rolled out three major new web sites – Yahoo! Food, Yahoo! Advertising and Yahoo! TV. They’re great sites, but […]