HDNet’s Mark Cuban is skeptical about the future prospects of BitTorrent technology for the distribution of large media files. He cites several reasons: Conflicting Clients. There are a ton of clients, with the number growing all the time. Although they work on basically the same source code and protocols, they all install and operate as […]

The Washington Post has an interesting take on the growing importance of podcasting, video podcasting and other Internet media in the world of politics. Not long ago, an anonymous video on the Internet would have elicited little more than amusement from the candidate under attack. But the 2006 campaign, in which then-Sen. George Allen (R-Va.) […]

The major music labels agreed to support a new music service, Ruckus Network, that will offer free music downloads, with some substantial restrictions, to any college student. Though it offers free music, the service has struggled to generate interest with students and to find a way to pay for the service because the free songs […]

At the 2007 Winter NAMM show, Alesis introduced their USB Mic Podcasting Kit. According to the company, the USB Mic Podcasting Kit allows even the most inexperienced users to quickly record audio into the computer and have their podcast heard on the Internet. Just plug the USB microphone into your computer – the microphone is […]

Hillary Rodham Clinton has announced her presidential ambitions, joining Barack Obama and John Edwards not only in the presidential race, but in making her announcement using an Internet video. Clinton appears to be embracing the use of Internet media as a tool for presenting her message to the public, and also to allow for more […]

BePodder, a media aggregator and podcast client for BeOS, has been updated to version 1.2. New in this version are Atom and RDF support for example and a new “lite” version, with some limitations, and an unlimited Pro version. The Pro version costs 15 euro. 20% of each copy sold gets donated to the Haiku […]

Sundance Channel today announced a strategic relationship with YouTube which will make excerpts from Sundance Channel content available on YouTube in 2007. The arrangement will kick off with content from the 2007 Sundance Film Festival and will continue throughout 2007 with original series, films and documentaries. Sundance Channel’s coverage of the 2007 Film Festival will […]

Added to podcast software list: Podpuppy is a free Podcast reciever for Windows. You can use it to subscribe to podcasts and automatically receive sound and video files as they are released by the author. PodPuppy is easy to use, supports the major podcast formats and provides the basic functions of a podcast receiver. The […]

The HD-DVD has been apparently been cracked, and high definition content is now being distributed freely over BitTorrent. The first HD-DVD to be uploaded to BitTorrent is Serenity, the Firefly movie. According to HDTV Blogger, the torrent is ‚Äúa 19.6GB file in native EVO format that should play on PowerDVD and WinDVD with HD DVD […]

Ars Technica has an good overview of a new bill introduced in the US Senate this week that would force satellite, digital, and Internet radio providers to implement measures designed to restrict the ability of listeners to record audio from the services. Called the “Platform Equality and Remedies for Rights Holders in Music Act” (PERFORM), […]