The BBC are reporting that they are to hook up with Azureus, and make programs like Red Dwarf, Little Britain and Fawlty Towers available for download via Azureus’ recently announced Zudeo service.
I have a real problem with this. My taxes, in the form of a £131 per year ($260USD) TV license fee (which is levied against all TV owners […]

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This article at Boing Boing caught my attention the other day:
The BBC are reporting that there will be no copyright extension for songs in the UK. The official review commissioned by the Treasury on all IP law in the UK has not yet been published but it is highly likely the BBC have managed to […]

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An article on the BBC News website has some interesting figures about how online video services like YouTube, and media distribution channels like iTunes are taking eyeballs away from mainstream TV.
Of course, you could argue that much of the what is hosted on sites like YouTube lack both production and entertainment quality, and that’s an argument […]

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Talk about getting a day off to a great start. This was one of the first posts I read in Google Reader this morning. From Leo’s article:
I had no idea what a storm my little sentence would generate. Hey, I was tired, dispirited, and trying to figure out how to do a show without any […]

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The news that TWiT may on it’s last legs has got the blogosphere buzzing - and rightly so.
Paul O’Flaherty and Rob Hyndman are among the scores who share their disbelief, while Jon Emmon quotes a great comment that he himself posted to the TWit.tv comments log.
A “Save TWit” blog has already appreared, and had a comment […]

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After my recent post about trusting allofmp3.com with my credit card details, it seems that the dillema is moot.
Credit card giants Visa and Mastercard have stopped accepting transactions from allofmp3.com, both saying that they don’t want their payment networks used for “illegal activity”. I wonder how much pressure the Recording Industry Ass. of America had to […]

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