The Register - Music and MediaBiting the hand that feeds ITWorld's first Blu-ray record pressing- May 30, 2008 'I wanna High Definition rock n' roll all night' Its usually pop-stars and rock bands that break musical records. But a Norwegian record label has set a new standard for audio pleasure by releasing the worlds first Blu-ray record.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/05/30/blu_ray_audio/ Media police assault takes down legit video website- May 29, 2008 MediaDefender in the hotseat again BitTorrent watchdog MediaDefender is once again taking heat after it was accused of launching a pernicious attack that brought down a web-based distributor of legal video.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/05/29/mediadefender_attacks_legi... BBC website suits slapped for cash splurge- May 29, 2008 Toys taken away The BBC Trust has today sharply criticised BBC executives for poor management of online services after an investigation of the finances of bbc.co.uk revealed it was 36m over-budget.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/05/29/bbc_website_budget_bust/ Belgian newspapers demand Google cash- May 28, 2008 Flemish legal blemish refuses to disappear Google is being dragged to court again by fresh demands from Belgian newspapers to cough up for using copyright material in its news and web indexing services.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/05/28/copiepresse_google_damages... RIAA abandons iTuneski suit- May 27, 2008 Mistakes failure for victory The Recording Industry Ass. of America has dropped its copyright infringement suit against the Russian online music seller AllofM3.com - aka iTuneski.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/05/27/riaa_abandons_ituneski_sui... Failing Web 2.0 stars pray for copyright abolition- May 27, 2008 Wanted: starving artists to help out web tycoons Remember the date - the one about an inch above the words you're reading now. 27 May 2008.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/05/27/web20_and_copyright/ Viacom suit is Net killer, Google claims- May 27, 2008 Hey guys, this is what DMCA was made for Viacom's copyright infringement lawsuit against YouTube threatens the way that hundreds of millions of people use the internet, YouTube owner Google has said in its court defence.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/05/27/google_youtube_viacom_defe... Microsoft hands Google the future of digital books- May 27, 2008 Here, have a monopoly While Bill Gates now holds a lucrative monopoly on digital images, his successors don't see the same prosperous future for the digital word. Microsoft is withdrawing from the Open Content Alliance digitisation project and will cease to scan books, the company said on Friday. It's abandoning its Live Book Search venture - a curious decision, since it effectively hands the future of the book to arch-rival Google.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/05/27/microsoft_google_book_mono... International copyright talks seek BitTorrent-killer laws- May 27, 2008 Plan to torpedo Pirate Bay-style freedom claims A new international trade agreement could seek to strengthen criminal sanctions against BitTorrent tracker sites that claim not to profit from internet users sharing music, movies and software.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/05/27/acta_leak/ The music biz's digital flops - a short history- May 26, 2008 Beware of The Next Big Thing Since the record industry first noticed that some of the kids were using the internet in the mid-90s, it's flopped from one puddle to the next. Despite a desperate need to evolve - guys, the pond is drying up, do try to breathe - recording industry strategy has flopped from one muddy puddle to the next, and a muddy puddle is quite a good metaphor for the latest survival strategy: advertising supported music which 'feels like free' to the consumer.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/05/26/paul_sanders_digital_flops... |