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Has online piracy reached tipping point?
News news analysis Across the globe, copyright owners are on the offensive and say jobs and future of intellectual property are at stake. Can they do anything about it?
Tags: Piracy, Copyright, Entertainment Company, Grokster Ltd., Music, P2P, entertainment, Advertisement, YouTube Inc., antipiracy
Imagine, DreamWorks create Net entertainment firm
News Imagine Entertainment and DreamWorks SKG are teaming with Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen to launch a Web entertainment company that creates and produces Internet-only programming.
Playboy to add auctions
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Did Viacom find smoking gun in YouTube case?
News YouTube's internal e-mail indicate employees and managers knew about copyright content, sources say, but chose to leave the material on the site. What are the DMCA ramifications?
Tags: Web 2.0, Digital rights management (DRM), Google Inc., Viacom Inc., Web 2.0, Matz, TV, Entertainment Company, Entertainment Industry, Video
Pirate Bay buyer 'misled' investors, booted off exchange
News The Pirate Bay acquisition by Global Gaming have moved from comical to gravely serious as a Swedish stock exchange accuses company of "providing false information".
Tags: Web 2.0, Web sites, Entertainment Company, BitTorrent, Grokster Ltd., Investor, Stock, entertainment, Sweden, financial
Verizon tests sending RIAA copyright notices
News U.S.'s No. 2 phone company, known for its reluctance to intervene in antipiracy cases, strikes an agreement to forward copyright notices on behalf of the music industry.
Tags: Piracy, Verizon Communications Inc., CBS Interactive Inc., Cox Communications Inc., Entertainment Company, RIAA, entertainment, antipiracy, Internet Service Provider, agreement
Pirate Bay suffers outage, site back up
News The controversial BitTorrent search engine goes down for at least three hours the day after the site's ISP reportedly cut off service.
Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Web 2.0, search engine, Site, CBS Interactive Inc., Entertainment Company, BitTorrent, entertainment, Internet Service, Pirate Bay
Yahoo's CEO to deliver CES keynote
News Carol Bartz's first turn on the CES stage as Yahoo's CEO marks the company's return to the main spotlight at the Las Vegas show.
Tags: Business Strategies & Functions, Yahoo! Inc., Tom Cruise, Business Strategies & Functions, TV, Entertainment Company, Consumer Electronics Association, Electronics, Ford Motor Co., Consumer Electronics Show
Pirate Bay says appeal is filed
News In a blog post, Pirate Bay operators say the site will live on. Also, they tell those seeking to raise money to help the defendants pay the fines to stop such efforts.
Tags: Piracy, Peer to peer, Fan, Entertainment Company, BitTorrent, Google Inc., Search Engine, entertainment, Pirate Bay, copyright law
Next up for Pirate Bay defendants: Italian trial?
News Having been found guilty of making copyright-protected files accessible for illegal file sharing, the four Pirate Bay men could face prosecution in Italy, lawyers in that country say.
Tags: Piracy, Lawsuits, Entertainment Company, BitTorrent, prosecutor, International Data Group, Internet Service, copyright law, Sweden, File-sharing
Sony: Touch-screen Walkman X is not a mini-computer
News The touchscreen Walkman X is Sony's latest attempt to close the gap with Apple in digital media players. In many ways it's the best Walkman in years.
Tags: Media players, MP3 players, Video, 802.11/Wi-Fi, Sony Walkman, Apple Inc., Walkman X, Wi-Fi connection, Touch Screen, Apple iPod
Australia: Spike streams ahead with Velocity9
News Australian digital services company Spike CyberWorks has acquired Hong Kong-based digital entertainment company Velocity9, in a move to expand its broadband content services.
News Corp. takes majority stake in Jamba
News Media giant is beefing up its mobile presence with the addition of Jamba, creator of the Crazy Frog ring-tone sensation.
Tags: Cellular phones, Mobile/Wireless, Acquisitions
Vivendi Universal's Flipside goes into Uproar
News Vivendi Universal Publishing unit Flipside and interactive entertainment company Uproar said Tuesday they have cut a deal which will see Flipside acquire all outstanding stock of Uproar for US$3 per share, for a total of about US$140 million.
Australia: Success today for AdultShop.com
News AdultShop.com has acquired online entertainment company Today's Success-- a move that the adult products etailer claims will help it become cash flow positive by the end of the year.
