media, digital convergence, entertainment

Old Media Is Being Unbundled, Just Like Telecom Was
book reviews: The Information, Gleick: Drumbeat to E-Mail: The Medium and the Message; Why information can't be the basis of reality

Publishing

• "Your fair use of this book is restricted. You may only read this book once." ~Anonymous
  
  

web scraping, magazines, newspapers, Alltop [HSW]

99 Cent Books (all, in 5 years?)
Will E-Book Prices & Restrictions Lead to E-Book Piracy?
This 26-Year-Old (indie author Amanda Hocking) Is Making Millions Cutting Out Traditional Publishers With Amazon Kindle
If it's on the Internet, does that make it quotable?
When the Software Is the Sportswriter
Apple, Google and the Publishers: Here’s How to Make Subscriptions Work
Tear down this PDF (PDF document format is digital publishing’s worst enemy)
Yahoo Is Said to Move Toward Personalized Content
Apps Alter Reading on the Web (Readability*, Pulse, Flipboard, My Taptu, Read It Later; *in Safari, Kindle)
New York Times Readies Pay Wall
An Early Look At News.me, The New York Times’ Answer To The Daily
New York Times Online Said to Be Less Than $20/Month
For Magazines, a Bitter Pill in iPad (subscriptions)
Google Digital Newsstand Aims to Muscle In on Apple
Why the iPad is Destroying the Future of Journalism
Video Might Save Newspapers
WikiLeaks, web to revolutionize reporting: Pilger
Web Focus Helps Revitalize The Atlantic
The NYT toughens up its paywall
For Newspapers, the Future is Now: Digital Must Be First
U.S. News & World Report Joins The Print Deadpool
Chart: How Newspaper E-Editions Are Faring
Faulty Metrics Make for a Media Guessing Game
When The News Lets Everyone Really Participate, It Changes The Way News Works (participatory journalism)
Law Professor Explains How Even When A Site Copies An Entire Article, It May Still Be Fair Use
Local News Website Says You Need To Pay To Read Its Stories, Says It's Collecting Visitor IPs To Sue
Digi-Novels
Authors Feel Pinch in Age of E-Books
Kindlerotica: The strange but inevitable rise of e-reader pornography.
The Web Eclipses Print Newspapers as a News Source
Apple Said to Negotiate With Publishers Over Digital Newsstand
'The Amish Internet' reports the news the old-fashioned way
AP Wants To Become The ASCAP Of News
Digital overhaul hatched: AP hopes project will be a do-over for news media
Tribune, Tidings will charge for Web content: Newspapers moving to paid online sites; subscribers will continue to have access
NYT Replaces Editors’ Choice iPad App With Full Version—Free For Now
Paywall will not remove NYT from 'online conversation', says CEO
Reuters Dumps Anonymous Comments: Throwing Out A Bunch Of Babies With The Bathwater?
Newspaper Publishers Still Hope Tablets Will Save Them
How to be a data journalist
Online Privacy: What's at Stake (journalism & ads)
The Legality Of News Aggregators
How Much We're Missing From The Public Domain
Google Asking For Help In Making Sure Public Domain Books Are Recognized As Public Domain
Aggregators: the good ones vs. the looters
USA Today to Remake Itself to Stress Digital Operations
Internet may phase out printed Oxford Dictionary
Of Two Minds About Books
Another Mystery: Buying E-Books Overseas
Spoiler Alert: Whodunit? Wikipedia Will Tell You

Music

• "You look at this and you say this is insane. It's insane. And if it is only Hollywood that has to deal with this, OK, that's fine. Let them be insane. The problem is their insane rules are now being applied to the whole world. This insanity of control is expanding as everything you do touches copyrights." ~Lawrence Lessig, 2002
  
  
• "There are only two industries that refer to their customers as 'users'." ~Edward Tufte
  
  

music sharing, streaming media: radio: Pandora [HSW];
podcasting (non-streamed) [video; HSW: intro, create]; MP3 [HSW: intro, quiz (10)]

Music Publishers Settle With Limewire; Afraid To Have To Prove They Actually Owned Copyrights In Question
LimeWire Shut Down Permanently
U.S. (DHS/ICE) Shuts Down (music torrent) Web Sites in Piracy Crackdown
Pirate Parties Plan to Shoot Torrent Site Into Orbit
Big media wants more piracy busting from Google
Korea Gets Its Own Dancing Baby Copyright Fight; Says Free Expression Trumps Copyright Concern
Huge Push In Brazil To Legalize File Sharing
Hadopi; France Starts Reporting ‘Millions’ of File-Sharers
CBC Bans Use of Creative Commons Music on Podcasts
(Irish) Music Industry Fails In High Court Bid To Force 3 Strikes on ISP
Storing Treasured Memories On CD May Be Risky
(Pandora) Music streaming service rejects Canada
How Shazam Works To Identify (Nearly) Every Song You Throw At It

TV, Video

TV [HSW] (Hulu [HSW], YouTube [HSW: download, upload], Netflix [HSW]);
Internet Movie Database (IMDb); viral video; Downfall (movie parodies); Lonelygirl15; rickrolling

Warner Tests Renting Film on Facebook for Web Cash ("The Dark Knight")
Hulu Plus on TiVo apparently being tested, live streaming to iPad apparently being considered
Web, TV convergence likely to puzzle viewers (too many boxes)
Web Video Rivalry Sparks U.S. Probe (MPEG LA's H.264 vs. Google's VP8)
Illegal TV streamers, here's how the feds will hunt you down
Comcast, NBC deal opens door for online video
Comparison: Amazon Prime, Hulu, Netflix
TV Industry Taps Social Media to Keep Viewers’ Attention
Visualization: How Netflix Beat Blockbuster
Amazon Prime Streaming Will Disrupt Netflix, Here's How
Netflix Partner Says Comcast ‘Toll’ Threatens Online Video Delivery
You Supply the Movie, Rifftrax Supplies the Laughs
Can cable block the Google TV revolution?
Conan 2.0: How a late-night Luddite accidentally fought his way back into bedrooms (and computers, smartphones, and tablets) across America.
Over 35 Hours of Video Uploaded Every Minute to YouTube (11/2010)
In 2014, You’ll Have Up to 10 Screens for Online Video
American Internet Use Catches Up With TV Use
Hulu Owners Looking To Make Hulu Even More Useless
Amazon poised to launch online movie service to rival Netflix
Time Warner Views Netflix as a Fading Star ("Albanian army going to take over the world?")
Will Netflix Destroy the Internet? American broadband capacity might not be able to keep up with everyone who wants to stream movies
Netflix’s Move Onto the Web Stirs Rivalries
Why film studios are betting on Web again
How Google TV Could Hand Netflix the entire streaming universe
A TV-Internet Marriage Awaits Blessings of All Parties
Multiple security vulnerabilities uncovered in connected TVs
Online TV spats mean fewer free shows on Web
Big Cable Is Bleeding: 500K+ Subscribers Lost In Q3
F.C.C. Calls for ‘Good Faith’ in Cable Dispute
Internet TVs May Doom the Set-Top Box
IMDb turns 20 with a refreshed, video-full website
Obsessions With Minutiae Thrive as Databases (IMDb; CDDB/Gracenote)
Tom Hanks Uses Web to Plot the Future (film: Electric City)
Facebook Passes Yahoo To Become The Second Largest Video Site In The U.S.
Facebook’s Sandberg: In The Future, All Media Will Be Personalized
Netflix to Stream Films From Paramount, Lions Gate, MGM
Crowded Field for Bringing Web Video to TVs
Digital movie locker `UltraViolet' nears launch
Google to start TV service in U.S. this autumn
In the Living Room, Hooked on Pay TV
The Full-On Assault On Cable Is Underway
The Web of Intent is Coming (Sooner Than You Think)
Long expected, YouTube wades into live streaming
BitTorrent Close To Launching Live Streaming Technology
Disney aiming to establish technology standards for web-connected toys
Apple, Google and Microsoft to face off for 'digital living room'
News Corp. Shuts Off Hulu Access To Cablevision Customers – And Turns It Back On
Internet Is a Weapon in Cable Fight
Democrats Are From Cablevision & Republicans Are From Fox In Retransmission Fee Dispute?
Networks Block Web Programs From Being Viewed on Google TV
Why Apple TV is a Ticking Time Bomb for Big Cable
Shifting Online, Netflix Faces New Competition
Netflix Accounts For 20% Of Peak U.S. Internet Bandwidth: Study
TiVo Gets a Major Upgrade, but Can It Beat Google TV?
Streaming video introduces a new wave of Internet piracy
YouTube Leanback, Hulu Plus, and even Google TV will not break us away from traditional pay TV services
Who Writes Pro-Cable Internet Legislation? Cable Does
4chan DDoS Takes Down MPAA and Anti-Piracy Websites
YouTube vs. Fair Use
HDCP 'Master Key' Found? Another Form Of DRM Drops Dead
Shaping Ads for Web-Connected TV
Blockbuster Files for Bankruptcy After Online Rivals Gain
Company Claims Legal Right To Stream Broadcast TV Online; Broadcasters Disagree
Spanish Court Sides With Google in YouTube Copyright Case
LH: How to Automatically Download TV Shows as Soon as They’ve Aired (or Turn Your PC into a TiVo)
LH: Ditching Cable for the Web: How Much Can You Save Buying, Renting, or Streaming TV
LH: Five Best Movie Recommendation Services

Copyright, ACTA, COICA

• "Copyright law is totally out of date. It is a Gutenberg artifact. Since it is a reactive process, it will probably have to break down completely before it is corrected." ~Nicholas Negroponte, Being Digital, 1995
  
  
• "Only one thing is impossible for God: to find any sense in any copyright law on the planet . . . Whenever a copyright law is to be made or altered, then the idiots assemble." ~Mark Twain
  
  

intellectual property, copyright, fair use, infringement (piracy), file sharing,
Creative Commons (licenses), Free Software Foundation, Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF),
American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP), Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA),
Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA)
Digital Rights Management (DRM) [HSW], Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA); Online Copyright Infringement Liability Limitation Act (takedown notice)
Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act (COICA)

Top 40 Countries for Copyright Piracy & Cyberlockers
New Study: 70% Of People Find 'Piracy' Socially Acceptable
Would Shakespeare Have Survived Today's Copyright Laws?; Would the Bard Have Survived the Web?
Filesharing prosecutions will face serious problems, says judge (UK 'Digital Economy Act')
Leaked State Department Cables Confirm That ACTA Was Designed To Pressure Developing Nations
ACTA text shows US caved in on Internet provisions
How ACTA Turns Private, Non-Commercial File Sharing Into 'Commercial Scale' Criminal Infringement
ACTA Analysis: You Can't Craft A Reasonable Agreement When You Leave Out Stakeholders
Expert: ACTA No Longer Gutting Internet Freedom
Countries release text of anti-counterfeiting pact (ACTA)
More People Thinking About Smart Copyright Reform
Transparency Pea Soup: The USTR Planned From The Beginning How Not To Be Transparent On ACTA
Latest leaked draft of secret copyright treaty: US trying to cram DRM rules down the world's throats
Homeland Security Presents 'Evidence' For Domain Seizures; Proves It Knows Little About The Internet - Or The Law
Time Warner Balks At Subpoenas In Mass Copyright Suits
Copyright Expansion Through Misinformation Has Gone On A Long Time... And It Involved Pimps & Ferrets
Will Internet censorship bill (COICA) be pushed through lame-duck Congress?
If Other Industries Were As Evil as the RIAA ;-)
Record Labels Angry That Hadopi Isn't Kicking People Off The Internet Fast Enough
A Look At How Many People Have Been Kicked Offline In Korea On Accusations (Not Convictions) Of Infringement
(GA Valdosta State) University Begins Reporting All P2P Users to the Police
US Copyright Group Drops Cases Against Thousands of BitTorrent Users (lack of jurisdiction)
FBI Prioritizes Copyright Issues; Not So Concerned About Missing Persons
New federal antipiracy regulations await returning students
New Book Shows How Our Common Culture Has Been Locked Up Via Copyright
Medieval Copy Protection
Why Debates Over Copyright Get Bogged Down: Conflating Use With Payment
How Social Mores Can Deal With 'Unfair' Copying, Even In Absence Of Copyright
Subpoenas for Internet users (downloading movies)
Why It's Important Not To Call Copyright Infringement Theft
Gene Simmons (KISS) Says Sue Your Fans, Take Their Homes; So Why Hasn't He?
Once Again, Dead Content Creators Seem To Sign A Lot Of Pro-Stronger Copyright Petitions
Hacker group (Anonymous) promises more attacks until it 'stops being angry'
The Media's Double Vision about the Digital Age>
No Easy Answers in the Copyright Debate (sheet music)
ASCAP Assails Free-Culture, Digital-Rights Groups
Czech Proposal On Copyright Law Would Require Artists To Get Collection Society Approval To Use Creative Commons?
Film industry hires cyber hitmen to take down internet pirates
Recording Industry Using Net Neutrality Debate To Try To Link Child Porn With Copyright Infringement Again
Don’t Think of It As Piracy, Think of It As Marketing
Yet Another Study Shows Musicians Making More Money
When You Realize That Copyright Law Violates Free Speech Rights, You Begin To Recognize The Problems...
How piracy works
Radiohead loves Web but sees shortcomings
Supreme Court Eyeing RIAA ‘Innocent Infringer’ Case
Bipartisan bill would ramp up anti-piracy enforcement online
Facebook Fails At The DMCA: Promises To Restore Counter-Noticed Content, But Doesn't
Copyright Abuse in Ohio Governor Election

Games, Gambling

online gambling [HSW: intro, poker]
gaming, massively multiplayer online game (MMOG), World of Warcraft (WoW) [HSW: quiz (10)];
OLLI Course. CROSSWORDS and YOU
Mozilla Labs Vaguely Announces Web-Based Gaming Initiative
Casinos Now See Online Gambling as a Better Bet
Big Casinos May Now Regret That They Had Congress Ban Internet Gambling
Congress Rethinks Its Ban on Internet Gambling
Should Internet Gambling Be Legalized?
Internet Betting Gets Bigger as Online Gambling Companies Merge