George Orwell
“In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
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Warner Bros. TV Unveils Online Programming Slate; WB Gets Second Chance As Female-targeted Video Net
Although details slipped out about its broadband plans a few weeks ago, Warner Bros. TV Group is now prepared to say it’s resurrecting its WB Network TV brand as an ad-supported video network that will offer a mix of new programming and old series aimed at women viewers. TheWB.com, which launches next week in beta, [...]
Sky's Murdoch criticises iPlayer, sees it as potent threat – ITProPortal
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Sky's Murdoch criticises iPlayer, sees it as potent threat
ITProPortal, UK - Apr 28, 2008 BSkyB also owns a catch-up service called Sky Anytime and like the iPlayer, Channel's four 4OD and others, it uses the Kontiki platorm which is owned by … |
Sky TV Considering IPTV For Its Picnic Pay TV Service | As Well As A DSL Set-Top Box
BSkyB is looking to launch Picnic, a pay-TV service with Sky Sports 1, Sky Movies, Sky One, a children’s channel and a factual channel.
The current plan is to broadcast the channels at various times of the day on MPEG-2 streams, which would be sent …
Kurt Vonnegut
“Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.”
George Bernard Shaw
“The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.”
Voluntary Collective Licensing and Extortion
Reihan Salam has a new piece at Slate about voluntary collective licensing of music (which was also the topic of an online symposium organized by our center at Princeton). I’m generally a fan of Reihan’s work, but this time I think he got it wrong…