Tag Archives: Video

BusinessWeek, as mainstream and pro-business a publication as you are likely to find, says the RIAA’s continued reign of legal terror is stupid and counterproductive: The music file-swapping masses got a fresh jolt of fear on Jan. 21 when the Recording Industry Association of America filed 532 lawsuits against alleged …

Here’s the BBC on the BBC: BBC governors are holding a crisis meeting on Thursday after Lord Hutton’s damning verdict led the corporation’s chairman to quit. Gavyn Davies resigned after the most serious claims in Andrew Gilligan’s BBC’s reports were branded “unfounded”. But he questioned some of the retired law …

We mentioned the other day that Pepsi is airing an ad on the Superbowl telecast that features teens sued by the RIAA for file sharing in order to promote their two-month offer of up to 100 million free – and legal – downloads from Apple’s iTunes. The RIAA said it …

The MPAA is looking for someone with the technical skills of Shawn Fanning and the investigative wherewithal of the assembled Law and Orders and CSIs, but they aren’t willing to pay very much for it – $60-75K in LA? You can commute from Moreno Valley: Internet Enforcement Manager Position Type: …

Congressional hearing today on broadcast “indecency“: House lawmakers on Wednesday called on television and radio broadcasters to clean up their act by instituting stricter standards after renewed complaints about the coarseness of some programming. They expressed disappointment that big broadcasters were not represented at a Congressional hearing delving into the …

Talk about a lengthy retirement: the guy basically hung it up 40 years ago: Paar, the smart-alec comic who pioneered late-night talk on “The Tonight Show” in 1957, died Tuesday at his home in Greenwich, Conn., after a long illness, said his son-in-law, Stephen Wells. Paar had suffered a stroke …

The only nights I really watch TV are Sunday and Tuesday, and it’s Fox all the way. Weekly, I am astonished by the level of inventive, subversive, satirical humor on the Fox Sunday lineup of The Simpsons, Bernie Mac, Malcolm In the Middle and the scabrous-yet-ingratiating Arrested Development – I …

I have been a huge fan of Jack Dangers throughout his career, especially his ongoing work as Meat Beat Manifesto, and his more recent dub-and-beats partnership with Ben Stokes as Tino Corp. Jack has a welter of interesting projects coming to fruition. The new Meat Beat Manifesto album, In Dub, …

For all the 24-heads out there – and I’m more or less one of them – a new “talk show” about 24 will be webcast after tomorrow’s (Jan 27) episode at 10pm eastern, and after each episode from now on, called 24Inside. Tomorrow’s guests will be Penny Johnson Jerald (Sherry …

The Return of the King took four awards at the Golden Globes last night: After seven years, it was time for a Hobbit victory dance. “The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King,” the final installment of the epic fantasy trilogy that hadn’t yet won most major movie …