When the Motion Picture Association of America filed a lawsuit against file-sharing website Hotfile earlier this year, it would’ve expected a defense. What it might not have expected was that the defense would claim that movie studios are using anti-piracy tools to remove content that they don’t even own.
According to a letter to shareholders released yesterday, Netflix is finally going to launch an app to integrate itself with Facebook…in Latin America and Canada. Why is the U.S. missing out? That would be because of the Video Privacy Protection Act.
Retail giant Walmart is putting its recent purchase of VUDU to work with the full integration of the service’s on-demand movie and TV show offerings on the Walmart.com website.
It’s the report that, literally, people didn’t want you to see. A study on the effects of movie piracy sites on their users and the industry at large has been reportedly been locked away “in the poison cupboard” because it suggested that conventional wisdom had it all wrong—pirates actually ended up spending more money on [...]
It’s the end of an era: Deluxe Entertainment Services Group and Technicolor, two iconic names in the movie industry for almost a century, have signed subcontracting deals that, more than likely, herald the end of actual film being used for motion pictures.
First off, full disclosure: I’m a streaming-only Netflix customer, and I’ve never been a mail-order video disc guy. I’m too impatient. If I want it, I’ll just Redbox it. Or Blockbuster it. Or if it’s available through an official replay-mode online, simply watch it there, piping the video feed from my laptop to the HDMI [...]
Mad at Netflix over the recently-announced price hike? You’re not alone. To recap, here’s what’s happening:
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Netflix hopes you weren’t using both its DVD-by-mail and instant streaming options for the low, low price of just $10 per month.
It’s the natural pairing that just isn’t going to happen. Multiple sources are now reporting that Netflix is not one of the companies looking at buying online video company Hulu.
With the rise of video-on-demand services like Netflix and Hulu, you’d be forgiven for thinking that the internet is becoming an increasingly lucrative medium for media companies.
