Media delivery network Akamai Technologies today announced the availability of Akamai Live Streaming in the Adobe Flash FLV format for delivering live, real-time audio and video formatted for playback using the Adobe Flash Player. Akamai‚Äôs distributed architecture is designed to handle live online events and scale to support thousands of simultaneous viewers. Through a series […]

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. […]

Media conglomerate Viacom, parent company of MTV, Comedy Central, BET, TV Land and Nickelodeon, has filed a $1 billion lawsuit against Google and its Internet video sharing site YouTube over unauthorized use of copyrighted entertainment. The suit accuses Web Google and YouTube of “massive intentional copyright infringement” of Viacom’s entertainment assets and seeks an injunction […]

Viacom has announced that it will be a content partner and will offer its full range of brands and programming for free to consumers via Joost. Joost is a new Internet video site, now in beta, designed to provide interactive video content while providing copyright protection. Under the agreement, Viacom’s divisions – MTV Networks, BET […]

YouTube has begun removing more than 100,000 unauthorized clips belonging to Viacom. The clips include everything from snippets of Jon Stewarts “The Daily Show” to Nickelodeons “SpongeBob SquarePants.” The purge comes after Viacom demanded that YouTube take down the material, accusing the site of violating its copyrights. Viacom says its the largest order to delete […]

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. […]

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 […]

Microsoft has announced that the XBox Live Video Marketplace is now open. “Xbox Live Marketplace will now provide gamers with easy access to hundreds of full-length TV shows for download to own and movies for download to rent from CBS, MTV Networks, Paramount Pictures, Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. (TBS, Inc.), Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) and […]

While Microsoft’s soon-to-be-released Zune portable media player has generated a lot more hype, it looks like the Xbox 360 may prove to be an even bigger threat to Apple’s iPod/iTunes juggernaut. The move promises to put digital video downloads where people want them most – on their TV’s. Microsoft today announced agreements with CBS, MTV […]

Cingular Wireless and Melodeo today announced the availability of Melodeo’s Mobilcast podcast service. Cingular customers can now search and listen to thousands of podcasts on their Cingular phone. “Mobilcast further enables the mobile news and entertainment capabilities of your cell phone by providing quick and simple access to podcast favorites while on the go,” said […]