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Piracy Isn’t Killing The Movie Industry, Greed Is
First off, we have to make it clear that the major movie studios are doing great at the box-office, despite movie piracy riding at an all-time high. Other parts of the movie industry, such as video rental outlets, do seem to struggle and they have the studios to thank for this, not piracy. In January of this year Warner Bros.
Continue reading »Netflix to Hollywood: Video Streaming “New Opportunity” Not Threat
Chief Content Officer Ted Sarandos, a former video-store clerk, is trying to convince movie studios that offering online video streaming won’t “destroy the ecosystem,” that in fact it’s “creating a new opportunity” to reach consumers. Netflix has always had a penchant for seeing the future and adapting its business model accordingly, and unlike Blockbuster Video, once the behemoth of the video rental industry, it has flourished over the years (profits are up 22% since last year alone). So when it approaches content providers with an idea for how to improve distribution and reach even more consumers you’d think they’d be eager listen to what it has to say.
Continue reading »Is Netflix "borking" lesbians with subscriber data releases?
It was really just a matter of time before Netflix was the target of a class-action lawsuit over its privacy policies; academics have pointed out for years how the company’s release of “anonymized” movie rental data could actually be used to expose a particular user’s viewing choices. And yesterday’s Netflix lawsuit by “a lesbian who does not want her sexuality nor interests in gay and lesbian themed films broadcast to the world” covers all the usual bases. The suit, filed in a California federal court and first noted by Wired , blasts Netflix for perpetrating “the largest voluntary privacy breach to date” when it launched the first Netflix Prize contest to create a better movie recommendation engine.
Continue reading »Pirated Film Director: “Exposure Unquestionably a Positive Thing”
Writer and director, while “not excited that people are seeing the film without paying,” love the fact that BitTorrent has given Ink an “enormous amount of exposure.” Many of us BitTorrent users are well aware that at best there’s a casual relationship between availability on tracker sites and box office ticket sales. For example, The Dark Knight, despite becoming last year’s most pirated movie, also earned more than $1 billion USD worldwide. For Indie movie producers, much like up and coming music artists, BitTorrent’s potential is enormous, giving them a worldwide audience and exposure with only the cost of a few mouse clicks.
Continue reading »‘Let’s talk about Hulu …’
p2pnet news view P2P | TV:- “I am, I feel, often a couple of steps behind mass culture,” says Jenna McWilliams, an educational researcher for project new media literacies and a Guardian online columnist. She says it on her sleeping alone and starting out early blog where she also says, “I studied creative writing and published some poems. Then I decided to get all up in education’s grill.” But she’s still writing, thankfully.
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