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 […]

Google and YouTube are proming hundreds of millions to the Time Warner, News Corp, NBC and other major content companies to buy time to work out the legal issues raised by its purchase of YouTube. Google calls these monies licensing fees. In effect, though, Google appears to be saying “Don’t sue us over copyrights. Take […]

New research by interactive agency Sharpe Partners has found that 54 percent of adult Internet users currently create their own video offline, but only 11 percent actually upload it to the Internet. That gap, according to Sharpe Partners’ Kathy Sharpe, represents a huge opportunity for software and system providers that can help consumers migrate their […]

BitTorrent has announced a slate of partnerships with a variety of leading film and television companies, including 20th Century Fox, G4, Kadokawa Pictures USA, Lionsgate, MTV Networks, Palm Pictures, Paramount Pictures and Starz Media. BitTorrent is a peer-to-peer (P2P) file distribution protocol that lets users share large files , while minimizing bandwidth charges for distributors. […]

YouTube as you know it may be dead, but it looks like a thousand baby YouTubes may spring up in its place. As material is getting banned from YouTube, it’s popping up again at sites like DailyMotion. Its getting tougher and tougher to break copyright law on YouTube these days. The site now performs frequent […]

Four major studios, Universal, 20th Century Fox, Paramount and Warner Bros, are reported to be pressuring Apple Computer are pressing Apple to make changes to iTunes before they will agree to make their films available via the iTunes Store.Currently, content on iTunes can be synced to an unlimited number of iPods. The studios want Apple […]

BitTorrent has announced a slate of partnerships with a wide variety of leading film and television companies. Fox, G4, Kadokawa Pictures USA, Lionsgate, MTV Networks (including COMEDY CENTRAL, Logo, MTV: Music Television, MTV2, Nickelodeon, Nicktoons Network, SpikeTV, The N, TV Land and VH1), Palm Pictures, Paramount Pictures and Starz Media will publish movies and TV […]

Fox Reality has partnered with Apple to deliver the first episode of all of its upcoming series to iTunes for free, one week prior to their premieres. The first series to premiere on iTunes, Fox’s My Bare Lady, promises to be controversial. The series follows U.S. adult film stars Kirsten Price, Nautica Thorn, Sasha Knox, […]

An executive at Google is predicting that an iPod will hold all the world’s TV in 12 years. Speaking at the FT World Communications Conference, Nikesh Arora, Google’s VP of European operations, told delegates that, in the coming years, the plummeting price of storage and its increasing volume-to-size ratio will give iPods almost unlimited potential […]

Lonelygirl15 and the Numa-Numa kid may soon be on your cell phone. YouTube is working with Verizon Wireless to bring a slice of YouTube to mobile phones.YouTube‚Äôs phone-based version will require a $15-a-month subscription to a Verizon Wireless service called VCast. VCast users will be able to view a selected number of videos approved by […]