Top Items:
Brad Stone / New York Times:
Software Exploited by Pirates Goes to Work for Hollywood — Hollywood studios are going into business with one of their biggest tormentors: the peer-to-peer pioneer BitTorrent. — On Monday, the company, whose technology unleashed a wave of illegal file-sharing on the Internet …
RELATED:
Evan Blass / Engadget:
BitTorrent Entertainment Network to be unveiled tomorrow — We're still reeling over the fact that BitTorrent — the same company that invented every pirate's favorite "sharing technology" — has signed deals with numerous content providers to offer for-pay movie, TV show, and video game downloads …
Discussion:
digg
Cynthia Brumfield / IP Democracy:
BitTorrent Entertainment Network Debuts Monday — Former entertainment industry enemy and P2P renegade BitTorrent is now officially and definitively inside the Hollywood fold. The company, well-known for the technology that fuels much of the so-called darknet, will launch on Monday …
Discussion:
Mark Evans
Mathew / mathewingram.com/work:
BitTorrent service is built to fail — Far be it from me to question the motivations of Bram Cohen, the genius behind the BitTorrent peer-to-peer protocol, who has finally launched (NYT link) the long-awaited (or at least, much discussed) movie download service that BitTorrent has been working on with the major Hollywood studios.
Jason Pontin / New York Times:
Millions of Videos, and Now a Way to Search Inside Them — THE World Wide Web is awash in digital video, but too often we can't find the videos we want or browse for what we might like. — That's a loss, because if we could search for Internet videos, they might become the content …
Discussion:
Fred Destin, Rodrigo A. Sepúlveda Schulz, Mark Evans, Beet.TV, Joe Duck and WebMetricsGuru
Scott Karp / Publishing 2.0:
The Great Media Industry Schism — The once monolithic media industry is undergoing a radical schism, dividing itself into content creation, on the one hand, and content aggregation and distribution on the other. — The nature of this transformation suddenly crystallized …
RELATED:
Foremski / Silicon Valley Watcher:Silicon Valley has become Media Valley - someone should tell NYC
Discussion:
Digital Markets
Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog:
Six cool things you can build with OpenID — I've posted the slides from my Future of Web Apps talk on OpenID, minus the demo videos. I'm planning to put together a video that combines the slides, demos and audio once the official podcasts have been published.
Steve Poland / TechCrunch:
Yahoo Publisher Network's Trojan Horse — Google has a hefty lead in getting small publishers to put Google-powered ads on their websites. There is no negotiated deal - advertisers agree to take whatever Google decides to give them. Revenue share terms are not disclosed to these small publishers.
Spencer Kelly / BBC:
Mobile talk moves to Web 2.0 — With a growing demand for a better browsing experience on our mobiles, there is, according to the industry, demand for Web 2.0 on the go. — While text blogging on a mobile is still seen as a minority sport, the explosion of camera and videophones now allows us …
Discussion:
MoCoNews
New York Times:
In Big Buyout, Utility to Limit New Coal Plants — Under a proposed $45 billion buyout by a team of private equity firms, the TXU Corporation, a Texas utility that has long been the bane of environmental groups, will abandon plans to build 8 of 11 coal plants and commit to a broad menu …
Darren / Digital Camera Reviews, Ratings …:
Olympus to Release DSLR/s on 5 March — The Eurpopean Olympus site has today published a teaser indicating that it is about to release a new DSLR (or more than one) on 5 March. — All the site really has is an image with an outline of three DSLRs (or is it the same camera outlined three times?).
Jeannie Choe / Engadget:
Gamer busted for "borrowing" library WiFi after hours — We're well aware of WiFi bogarting from unsuspecting neighbors or coffee shops, but who knew there'd be a crackdown at the local house o' books? Cops couldn't leave well enough alone when they rolled up on 21 year-old Brian Tanner jammin …
Discussion:
digg
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Apple To Get Into Ringtone Business — This video presents a fairly compelling case that Apple will be getting into the Ringtone business with the release of the iPhone. Ringtone sales are big business, accounting for 10% of so of the global music market, and well over $1 billion per year in sales …
Discussion:
MoCoNews
Leslie Wayne / New York Times:
Starbucks Chairman Fears Tradition Is Fading — The last thing that Starbucks wants is watered-down coffee. — It may not have that. But in a passionate internal memorandum to Starbucks executives, the company chairman said that a drive for efficiency has led to a "watering down of the Starbucks experience."
