The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is fighting a self-help group‚Äôs subpoenas that seek to identify anonymous users of several video sharing sites. According to EFF, San Francisco-based Landmark Education, known for its Landmark Forum motivational workshops, is trying to suppress an investigative television news piece critical of its methods. Citing alleged copyright violation, Landmark subpoenaed […]

Sling Media has announced the immediate availability of the SlingPlayer for Mac OS X, a software download for Slingbox customers who wish to view their home TV natively on an Apple Macintosh computer. The Slingbox allows users to watch their cable, satellite, or digital video recorder (DVR) programming from wherever they are, turning any Internet-connected […]

In the seventies, Erich von Daniken’s best-selling book Chariots of the Gods speculated that ancient civilizations were visited by space aliens, and that pyramids and Incan ruins were actually signs of extraterrestrial intervention in human history. According to the author, Andean astrological markings were actually alien landing strips. One has to wonder what von Daniken […]

The Halloween Videoblog Festival has a collection of Halloween-themed vlog episodes The videos range from the silly to some “vlogoween” creepiness, with a surprising number of puppet hosts along the way. In Ernesto Loves Halloween (.mov), RSS News’ culture and sex correspondent Ernesto shares his love for Halloween and sexy senoritas.

Ad Age reports that Dove Evolution, a 75-second viral film created by Ogilvy & Mather, Toronto, for the Unilever brand, has reaped more than 1.7 million views on YouTube and has gotten significant play on TV talk shows “Ellen” and “The View” as well as on “Entertainment Tonight.” Its also brought the biggest-ever traffic spike […]

Podcasting‚Äôs hillbilly savant Wichita Rutherford, host of the 5 Minutes With Wichita podcast, has announced that he’s been signed to create his own TV show. Rutherford signed a deal last week with Blue Highways TV. According to Rutherford, he’s the first podcaster to get his own television show. ‚ÄúI‚Äôm so happy I can‚Äôt hardly stand […]

Macworld Expo 2007 will feature Podcasting Day, a day-long series of sessions for podcasters, hosted by Dusty Wright and Richard Burns, the owners and hosts of the” smart culture” audio and video podcasting site Culture Catch. The Podcasting Market Symposium will take place Jan. 12, 2007, in San Francisco at MacWorld. This series of sessions […]

WildVoice, a personal broadcasting community, has developed a Halloween-themed podcast player, right, that anyone can use on WildVoice, in their MySpace page or other blogs to play their audio recordings. It’s configured so that, once Halloween is over, users only need to switch the player to a new skin and it will automatically update on […]

MySpace announced today that it plans to screen user posts to block unauthorized copyrighted music audio recordings from being hosted on the site. MySpace will automatically screen audio recordings uploaded by community members to their profiles. The technology is designed to let MySpace identify copyrighted music for designated rights holders and let MySpace block the […]

One more sign that YouTube as you know it is dead: the site has quietly purged over 30,000 videos after receiving complaints of copyright infringement. According to a report in the New York Times, nearly 30,000 clips of TV shows, movies and music videos were taken down after the Japanese Society for Rights of Authors, […]