The MPAA has filed a lawsuit in federal court in New York, Paramount Pictures v. Load ‘N Go Video, suing a small business for loading DVDs onto personal media players (e.g., iPod Video) on behalf of customers. Load ‘N Go sells both DVDs and iPods and will load purchased DVDs onto iPods for customers who […]

The Derbyshire (UK) Chamber of Commerce has launched a podcast series that summarises the latest changes to business legislation. The group purports to be the first UK Chamber to offer audio downloads on legislation updates. The new podcasts offer details of legislation changes that are applicable to all employers. They are divided into four topic […]

Amazon.com‚Äôs editors picked Tricks of the Podcasting Masters as one of the Top 10 Reference Books of 2006. This was the only book about podcasting to be included in any of the editors’ picks categories. Tricks of the Podcasting Masters, published by Que Publishing in May 2006, was co-authored by veteran podcasters Mur Lafferty (Geek […]

We were pretty skeptical last year, when podcast pioneer Adam Curry predicted a podcast porn explosion, and even more so when the mainstream media went iPod porn crazy. Now a statistical analysis of the content on the Web has found that there is actually a lot less adult content on the Web than some may […]

Claire Atkinson at Advertising Age Media Works writes in the “Watercooler” column that, since its July 2005 acquisition of MySpace, “the number of profiles on the social-networking site has zoomed to 130 million from 29 million in July 2005. Profile pages are growing globally at the pace of 8 million a month and are expected […]

Early reviews are in on the Microsoft Zune, which debuts today. The consensus is….the Zune zucks. The Zune has benefited from a tremendous amount of buzz. Unfortunately, it appears that Microsoft’s second attempt at an iPod/iTunes killer suffers seriously in comparision to its 5th generation competition. Engadget has a blow-by-blow walkthrough of installing the Zune […]

Owners of iPods and other portable media players are thieves, according to Universal Music CEO Doug Morris. “These devices are just repositories for stolen music, and they all know it,” UMG chairman/CEO Doug Morris says. “So it’s time to get paid for it.” Microsoft recently announced that the Zune’s purchase price includes a cut for […]

A defendant in one of the RIAA’s file-sharing lawsuits will be able to question an idea that has been a core element of the music organization’s case against thousands of others – that one shared song was worth $750 in damages. In UMG v. Lindor, Judge Trager has granted Marie Lindor’s motion to add a […]

Podcast Search is a new site built on Google’s search API that filters through Google’s results, returning only links from podcast related sites. The site is intended to help searchers ‘Find everything to do with podcasts from the worlds best sites in one easy place.’

Intel Corporation announced at the Web 2.0 Conference today that it is collaborating with several software companies on the launch of SuiteTwo, a set of business software applications. The integrated suite is being billed as “a family of interconnected services combined to improve productivity and enable high-engagement marketing,” comprised of applications from software companies including […]