Tag Archives: Video

We ran a substantial portion of attorney and P2P advocate Philip Corwin’s exceptional testimony before the California Senate Select Committee on the Entertainment Industry. Other testimony yesterday was equally explosive: Free peer-to-peer music file-sharing has become larger than the multibillion-dollar recording industry, with a growth trend that has become “fundamentally …

Brilliant, logical, clear presentation in favor of enabling P2P as the savior rather than the destroyer of the entertainment industry by attorney Philip S. Corwin, as presented yesterday before the California Senate Select Committee on the Entertainment Industry – well worth the time to read if you want to understand …

The Christian Science Monitor examines the impact of new technology on military familes in war time: Certainly ever since the mythic Penelope watched Odysseus go off to Troy, the wives of warriors have been left to fend for themselves, raise the children alone, and hope their fighter someday comes home …

After a very intense week of war and the war on TV, I feel my attention beginning to wander. I find all coverage all the time unnerves me and leaves me drained like too much sugar or caffeine. I want, no, need, to know what’s going on, but to be …

Loathsome Iraqi TV was not attacked until yesterday – here’s why: in this conflict the first strikes against Iraq’s television did not occur until early Wednesday, almost one week into the war and even then forced only a temporary disruption in the government’s programming. The Bush administration’s decision not to …

Forbes says Internet audio/video news streaming is coming into its own with the war in Iraq: Every new medium has its defining moment, and the current Iraqi conflict will be the event that validates the Internet’s streaming news media. ….The unfolding war in Iraq is expected to spur consumer adoption …

ReplayTV digital video recorder maker seeks protection: The company … has been spending as much as $1 million a month in litigation expenses to defend a lawsuit brought by more than two dozen entertainment companies. The entertainment companies allege that ReplayTV owners are violating copyright law when they skip commercials. …

New technology enables reporters to broadcast solo on the (cheap) fly: Armed with $15,000 in satellite phones and computers, Preston Mendenhall calls himself a “one-man band” who writes stories, snaps photographs and shoots video in combat zones. The international editor for MSNBC.com spent most of February traveling alone in Syria, …

All the award shows have come and gone, the hangovers but a memory. Time for the FINAL AWARDS: the Book-Film-TV-Video Critiquees, the Best of 2002 as selected by your Blogcritics. Please note the votes for Critiquees were in before the Academy Awards Please take these awards as hearty recommendations and …

My general feelings toward the pampered poodles of Hollywood have changed dramatically for the better after a decorous Academy Awards presentation last night. Whatever their personal feelings about war and politics, all but Michael Moore put tradition and reverence for their art – obviously genuinely felt – above self-indulgence in …