Over the weekend, I did a couple of things that I don’t normally do - I bought a newspaper and I watched TV.
I was spending the weekend in the North East of England with friends; Mrs T was already in that neck of the woods because of some work stuff, so I cadged a […]

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The team at Xbox Video Marketplace are making more great movie content available for download in the coming weeks - news surfaced this morning that the following movies from Paramount will be available for download from Feb 19th onwards into spring:

Transformers (available in SD and HD)
Goodbye Bafana (available in SD and HD)
Intersection (available in SD)
Primal […]

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As reported in the Times, and followed up by CrunchGear, the Government here in the UK is considering forcing ISPs to take action against any of their users who are downloading copyrighted material. This is how the proposal will work (from the CrunchGear article):
Users “suspected” of having illegally downloaded something will get an e-mail from […]

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Splashcast, the site where users can create their own media channels using pretty much any media they like - video, photos, audio, text, PDF documents, and even Powerpoint presentations - has announced today that, among the new features, their latest Splashcast player offers inline posting to Twitter.

To show you this in action, I’ve embedded […]

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That Viacom is suing GooTube for $1bn is old news - a great opening shot in the negotiating battle to come, but old news.
The thing I don’t get is, why would Viacom bother? One of the podcasts I listen to is Adam Curry’s Daily Source Code. On each episode, he plays (at least) a couple […]

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So, Steve Jobs has called on the music industry to start selling music online without any DRM?
I think this has less to do with Steve wanting what’s best for the consumer and more to do with the recent news that Norway declared Apple’s DRM - specifically the way iTunes is locked into iPod - violates their consumer […]

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