Posted by Simon Perry on 19 August 2008 | Tagged as: Legal, P2P, UK
An unnamed woman in UK has been ordered to pay £16,000 after having been found guilty of sharing a game, Dream Pinball 3D, on P2P networks. The initial default judgement was made against her was at the London County Court on 27 May. Subsequently the Patents County Court in London handed down damages of £6,086.56 [...]
Posted by Simon Perry on 7 November 2007 | Tagged as: BBC, BBC iPlayer, P2P, UK, Video Services
We met with Mark Taylor, President of the Open Source Consortium (OSC) last night, directly after his meeting with the BBC to discuss opening-up the iPlayer to run on more platforms than just the Microsoft browser. It appears that the meetings were positive and boiled down to two points, the BBC feels they haven’t communicated [...]
Posted by Simon Perry on 11 April 2007 | Tagged as: Broadband, Content, Content Deals, Joost, P2P, Shift to Web delivery
Joost racks up another content deal. This time it’s a record breaker.
Posted by Simon Perry on 8 March 2007 | Tagged as: Content, P2P, Skype, Software, VoIP
Skype has announced that its VoIP software has been downloaded over 500 million times since its inception in August 2003. A pretty staggering number, even when you realise that it includes all of the downloads and possibly all upgrades of the software (* We’re in the process of checking this with Skype HQ). Working out [...]
Posted by Simon Perry on 17 January 2007 | Tagged as: Broadband, Computer-Centric, Distribution, Joost, P2P, Shift to Web delivery
The next-market-to-disrupt target of the Skype/Kazaa founders – TV – has it’s latest news. The Venice Project’s working name has been changed to Joost, continuing their penchant for picking weird names – always a benefit when you want the domains(!). As to the source/root of the name … ? Well it could be that their [...]
Posted by Marty Lafferty on 8 December 2006 | Tagged as: Distribution, Europe, Events, P2P
Final instalment of Marty Lafferty’s summary of the Next Gen P2P sessions at Digital Hollywood Europe.
Posted by Marty Lafferty on 7 December 2006 | Tagged as: Distribution, Europe, Events, P2P
Continuation of Marty Lafferty’s summary of the Next Gen P2P sessions at Digital Hollywood Europe.
Posted by Marty Lafferty on 6 December 2006 | Tagged as: Distribution, Europe, Events, P2P
Keep up to speed with the changes in P2P market by reading Marty Lafferty’s detailed account in today’s first instalment.
Posted by Simon Perry on 28 July 2006 | Tagged as: Business, Legal, P2P
P2P file-sharing network Kazaa have settled the many different lawsuits against them around the globe. They plan to go legit.
Posted by Mike Slocombe on 13 February 2006 | Tagged as: Copy Protection, Digital Rights Management (DRM), Distribution, Legal, P2P, UK
Major Brit broadband company announce trials to offer legal BitTorrent downloads.
