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isoHunt loses big: infringement "old wine in a new bottle"
The movie studies have won another major legal victory in the ongoing war against file sharing, this one against an individual (Gary Fung) who ran a number of torrent search sites, including the popular isoHunt. Although the de...
Brief: WTO: China violates int\'l trade law by limiting media imports
The World Trade Organization has ruled that China's practice of funneling media imports to state-owned companies—which facilitates the country's long tradition of censorship—violates international trade laws. The ruling was a result ...
Kids who smoke pot like to listen to music that mentions it
All of us are awash in various media cues that exert subtle influences on our behavior and choices. But even when a correlation is found, separating cause and effect is extremely difficult—have we adopted a habit, such as...
3D high-def movies coming to your living room on Blu-ray
Hollywood has been so enthralled with the recent renaissance of 3D in the theater that the Blu-ray Disc Association has finalized a specification for delivering full 1080p high definition stereoscopic video on Blu-ray discs. The f...
Avatar reviewed in 3D, on IMAX: you know the story; go anyway
Avatar may be hurt by the curse of expectation, and it's hard to keep the message that MOVIE MAKING HAS BEEN CHANGED FOREVER out of your mind once your butt is actually in a seat in front of the thing. The trailers keep telling us...
Apple working on automated 3D point-of-view displays, more
Apple has a healthy R&D budget for a company of its size and spends quite a bit of time patenting interesting technology. Sometimes the technology ends up in future products and sometimes it doesn't, but the patents always g...
Radio Days: the celluloid afterlife of real radio
One night in 1959, radio DJ Bruce Morrow was broadcasting from the studios of WINS-AM in New York City when an elderly African American woman walked into the room. The lady asked if she could sit down in the studio and rest for ...
Apple now offers digital gift cards via Facebook
With the holiday season approaching at a breakneck pace, Apple is looking to cash in on procrastinators, unoriginal gift givers, and what's left of relationships you once shared with friends you haven't seen since high school. T...
Americans consume 3.6 zettabytes of data, most of it pixels
Researchers from the University of California, San Diego, have produced the latest in a series of reports entitled "How Much Information?" The goal of the work is to provide some estimate of the amount of content that a typica...
Hands-on with YouTube, labels\' music video lovechild, Vevo
Vevo, the spinoff of YouTube meant for professional music videos, has finally launched—with the usual sputter that comes with highly-anticipated website debuts. The site, which has been in the works since at least March of...
Apple may acquire Lala for cloud-based iTunes streaming
Apple is reportedly in negotiations to acquire online music streaming service Lala, according to sources speaking to Bloomberg News. Details of the rumored acquisition are unknown at this time, and neither Apple nor Lala would c...
Microsoft enables Silverlight video streaming to iPhones
At PDC 2009, Microsoft demonstrated Silverlight video streaming to an iPhone. While Microsoft user experience platform manager Brian Goldfarb said that Microsoft "worked with Apple" to make it happen, don't expect plug-ins for M...
Apple releases iTunes LP and Extras specs, TuneKit SDK
It appears the hubbub over iTunes LP production fees was indeed unfounded. As promised last month, Apple has released the complete specifications for its Cocktail extended digital content format, aka iTunes LP for music and...
Google book settlement revised, criticized
Late Friday night, Google filed a revised version of its book settlement with the New York court that is overseeing the case. The new version limits the settlement to works published in a handful...
Laying down tracks on the go with an iPhone and a browser
Back in the day, the multitrack tool of choice for bedroom Springsteens was an analog four-track recorder from companies like Tascam. But with the advent of cheap laptops and powerful digital too...
