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Pakistan Alters YouTube Ban to Block Certain Videos
Islamabad, Pakistan - Pakistan plans to restore access to
Google's (NASD: GOOG) YouTube, but will continue to block individual videos it deems are offensive
to Muslims, the...
VEVO to Offer Global Live Stream of World Cup Concert
Los Angeles
- In its first foray into global live music streaming, VEVO, the online music
video portal joint venture between Google (NASD: GOOG), Sony (NYSE: SNE) Music...
Ellen DeGeneres Starts Record Label, Signs 12-Year-Old
New York
- Ellen DeGeneres, the talk show host and judge on "American Idol," is
launching her own record label, "eleveneleven," and signing
12-year-old YouTube star Greyson...
Netflix Taps Microsoft DRM to Secure Streaming to Devices
Los Gatos,
Calif. - Online DVD rental
service Netflix (NASD: NFLX) announced on Tuesday that it will use Microsoft's (NASD: MSFT) digital
rights management (DRM) technology to secure content...
Report: "Lost" Finale Breaks BitTorrent Download Record
Los Angeles
- The series finale of Disney/ABC's (NYSE: DIS) "Lost" has broken the single-day
download record on file-sharing network BitTorrent, racking up close to 1
million...
Google Offered Viacom $592M to License Content to YouTube
San Francisco
- Before Viacom filed its $1 billion copyright infringement lawsuit against
YouTube, Google (NASD: GOOG) offered Viacom (NYSE: VIA) $592 million in guaranteed revenues...
U.K. VOD Service SeeSaw Adds Premium MTV, Disney Content
London - SeeSaw, the U.K.
video-on-demand service based on the back end of the BBC's failed Project
Kangaraoo, has added a number of premium content channels...
Irish ISP Eircom Debuts "Three-Strikes" Policy on File-Sharing
Dublin, Ireland - Irish ISP Eircom on
Monday began forwarding the identities of suspected file-swappers to copyright
holders, as part of a court-ordered "three-strikes" protocol that
will...
FCC Seeks More Information on Comcast-NBC Universal Deal
Washington
- The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has requested more information
from both Comcast (NASD: CMCSA) and NBC Universal (NYSE: GE), as it reviews potential antitrust concerns
with the...
Comcast Developing Tunerfish Social TV Discovery Service
New York - Comcast (NASD: CMCSA), the nation's largest cable TV provider,
is developing a new service that will let viewers share what which programs
they are...
