So DivX Corporation’s Stage6 has croaked. The service’s ‘goodbye, cruel word’ note says it was a victim of its own success, but that it proved ‘it’s possible to distribute true high definition video on the Internet’.
What it really showed is how deliriously inefficient streaming video is, whether it’s high def or otherwise. It cost at [...]
This is a longer version of the piece I have just written for The Guardian newspaper, I’m not sure whether it’s destined for the Comment or Comment Is Free section. It also has the benefit of having links.
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Filesharing is the favourite whipping-boy of an entertainment industry refusing to update its business models for the P2P [...]
This is the first installment of a bi-weekly piece I’ll be writing for TorrentFreak. I’m really excited about getting a column back after Channel 4 binned me over a year ago (but then they never really understood what I was going on about.)
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These last few years P2Pers have got used to TV entertainment [...]
Raw numbers can’t convey the excitement of releasing STEAL THIS FILM II at the end of 2007, but here they are anyway: in the first 4 days there have been approximately 150,000 downloads (we haven’t checked how many views there have been on bittorrent.com, Stage6, Joox, YouTube, Google Video and everywhere else the film has [...]
I’m transcribing part of a chapter from The Exemplary Society, Imitation in Western And Chinese Thought (This transcription will be lengthening and improving as I am able to add to it.)
Two pieces on counterfeiting of cars in China. Note in the first piece posted here, academic Stephen Mihm describes how 150 years ago, the USA was also a counterfeit economy, ripping off everything from books to gin. Mihm (Ph.D. New York University, 2003; Assistant Professor of History) is the author of A Nation of Counterfeiters: [...]
This theme park, located in the Shijingshan District ofBeijing, China, first opened in 1986. It is owned and operated by the Shijingshan District government. The park has been featured in international media this year for having made unauthorized use of Japanese and American cartoon characters. From Wikipedia (Dec 2007):
according to a report originally broadcast on Fuji TV’s FNN News, the park features a [...]