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 [...]