UK ISPs, including Tiscali, BT and Carphone Warehouse, are warning that they may “pull the plug” on the BBC’s new iPlayer, a new Windows Internet video player, because of its potential to eat up Internet bandwidth. They’re threatening to block the player or throttle bandwidth for users unless the BBC gives the ISPs a cut […]

There’s been a lot of blog discussion, recently, about podcasting startup PodTech and its struggles to become profitable. The company is burning through cash to support 38 employees and high-rent office space in Palo Alto, but has failed to create any breakout Internet TV franchises. CenterNetworks’ Allen Stern offers Five Suggestions to Improve PodTech: Update […]

MSNBC has announced that, after the live AFL-CIO Presidential Candidates Forum has concluded, non-NBC media, blogs and Internet media may make unlimited use of the debate and excerpts, with appropriate credit to MSNBC, for the purpose of analyzing, reporting on, or commenting on the Forum.¬† While many would consider this fair use, MSNBC is making […]

Internet television site Veoh has filed an action in Federal court against Universal Music Group (UMG), “to reinforce its rights as a copyright compliant company under the safe harbor provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).” Veoh is preemptively attacking Universal, according to the company, to “create a copyright friendly environment” for Internet video. […]

Apple introduced a completely rewritten iMovie in the iLife ’08 suite earlier this week. But, while the new iMovie streamlines production of simple videos, some users are also finding that Apple dropped their favorite features from iMovie HD, the previous version. iMovie ’08 eliminates timeline-style editing, which can make it more difficult to do things […]

The NewsMarket today launched a new service, VideoCaf√©,¬†that lets bloggers browse and embed free video content from some of the world’s leading organizations. VideoCaf√© is designed to provide bloggers the same access to video content that television and large media sites have had in the past.¬†Initial footage available for embedding into blogs comes from Google, […]

The New York Times has a decent overview of recent developments in streaming video today: ‚ÄúThere is extreme interest in streaming because it simplifies the process of getting video to the consumer,‚Äù said Ross Rubin, the director of industry analysis for the NPD Group, a market analysis company. Streaming video, unlike downloads, never resides on […]

Information Week’s Alexander Wolfe today offered his DRM Scorecard, summarizing it Hackers Batting 1000, Industry Zero. “Every single significant attempt at consumer-music DRM has been cracked,” writes Wolfe. He supports this by noting that CSS (older DVD encryption), Fairplay (Apple’s encryption technology), AACS (new DVD encryption technology) and Windows Media DRM have all been cracked. […]

YouTube has announced a new music video competition, YouTube OntheRise Rap Edition. The video contest hopes to find the best upcoming rap and hip-hop artists in the US. Interested artists can submit original videos from Friday, August 10 through Friday, August 17. 50 Cent, Common and Polow da Don will help judge the contest and […]

WebbAlert, a new video podcast that’s a variation on Rocketboom, has launched and is betting that by brown-nosing bloggers it can generate buzz for the show. The show, hosted by X-Play‚Äôs Morgan Webb, focuses on technology and gaming news. Here’s what TechCrunch’s Mike Arrington has to say about the show: Webb also ‚Äúgets‚Äù how new […]