Media Stories for 2009

What Would Have Entered the Public Domain Tomorrow? 331
German Wikipedia Passes One Million Article Mark 106
BBC's Plan To Kick Open Source Out of UK TV 302
VLC Team Announces Video Editor In the Works 120
3D Blu-ray Spec Finalized, PS3 Supported 157
DRM Flub Prevented 3D Showings of Avatar In Germany 386
BBC Lowers HDTV Bitrate; Users Notice 412
New Zealand Reintroduces 3 Strikes Law 165
Former Congressman Learns About Streisand Effect 527
Lack of Manpower May Kill VLC For Mac 398
Anticipated Closure of BitTorrent Sites Spurs Panic Downloads In China 114
Nvidia Announces 3D Blu-ray Format For 2010 178
Court Says Fair Use May Hold In Some RIAA Cases 145
D-Link's New Boxee Box Runs Linux, Eyes Netflix 138
DVD-by-Mail Services Cleared In Patent Troll Case 73
One Way To Save Digital Archives From File Corruption 257
Introducing L2Ork, World's First Linux Laptop Orchestra 86
Best PC DVR Software, For Any Platform? 536
Danish DRM Breaker Turns Himself In To Test Backup Law 466
Synchronize Data Between Linux, OS X, and Windows? 305
Pirate Bay Shuts Down Tracker, Switches To Distributed Hash Table 327
Fusion-io IoXtreme's Consumer-Class PCIe SSD — Impressive Throughput 110
Synthetic Stone DVD Claimed To Last 1,000 Years 416
Flash Vulnerability Found, Adobe Says No Fix Forthcoming 355
LegalTorrents Launches Copyright-Compliant Tracker 113
Regulator Blocks BBC DRM Plans 177
UK's Channel 4 To Broadcast In 3D 126
MythTV 0.22 Released 329
Tired of Flash? HTML5 Viewer For YouTube 372
Lulu Introduces DRM 222
WIPO Committee Presentations Show Nuanced View of Copyright 84
Cable Exec Suggests Changing Consumer Behavior, Not Business Model 675
DVRs Help Some TV Shows Improve Ratings 297
uTorrent To Build In Transfer-Throttling Ability 187
Intel Updates SSDs, Supports TRIM, Faster Writes 112
BBC Planning To Launch Global iPlayer VoD Service 179
Internet Archive Puts 1.6M E-Books On OLPC Laptops 106
No Cheap Replacement For Hard Disks Before 2020 346
Disney Close To Unveiling New "DVD Killer" 498
Xbox 360 Update Will Lock Out Unauthorized Storage 435
1/3 of People Can't Tell 48Kbps Audio From 160Kbps 567
Warez Moving From BitTorrent to Conventional Hosting Services 366
Photoshop Disaster Draws DMCA Notice For Boing Boing 391
GE Developing 1TB Hologram Disc Readable By a Modified Blu-ray Drive 238
Archiving Digital Artwork For Museum Purchase? 266
MMS Arrives For the iPhone — Will It Crash AT&T's Network? 153
No App Store For Microsoft's Zune HD 351
Spotify Retreats To Invite-Only In UK 130
Which Filesystem Do You Use On Portable Media For Linux Systems? 569
Apple Announces iTunes 9, "LPs," Video Camera For the iPod Nano 521
DRM Take II — Digital Personal Property 356
iPod Fee Proposed For Canada 414
Accused Killer Asks For Online Media Users' IDs 149
Open Source Camera For Computational Photography 167
Disney Buys Marvel For $4B 423
An End To Unencrypted Digital Cable TV and the HTPC 345
US Fed Gov. Says All Music Downloads Are Theft 451
Nielsen Struggles To Track Modern Viewing Habits 248
Avatar, Has Sci-fi Found Its Heaven's Gate? 443
Google Brings SVG Support To IE 233
New Hitchhiker's Guide Book "Not Very Funny" 410
Cameron's Avatar Trailer Posted 278
Poor Design Choices In the Star Wars Universe 832
Open Source Tech Used To Monitor Afghan Election 51
How the Pirate Bay Will Be Legalized 265
Opting Out of the Google Books Settlement, Pro & Con 125
Advice On Creating an Open Source Textbook? 178
Why the BSA Is Less Reviled Than the RIAA 371
Comcast Seeking Control of Both Pipes and Content? 241
The Best and Worst Tech-Book Publishers? 271
Sony To Convert Online Bookstore To Open Format 107
Burning Man Responds To EFF's Criticism of Policy 210
Battlestar Galactica Feature Film Confirmed 342
EFF Says Burning Man Usurps Digital Rights 439
Judge Rules Against RealDVD 407
Sensor To Monitor TV Watchers Demoed At Cable Labs 302
Music Labels Working On Digital Album Format 250
Comparing the MMO Industry With the Silver Screen 95
Opera Being Composed On Twitter 99
Neuros LINK Mixes Quiet, Aesthetics, and Ubuntu 121
Encyclopedia Britannica Loses Information-Retrieval Patent Ruling 95
Shaw Cable Again Blocks Firewire On Canadian Set-Top Boxes 257
Open Source Textbook For Computer Literacy? 95
Nikon Unveils a Camera With Built-In Projector 108
Goodbye Apple, Hello Music Production On Ubuntu 513
The Music Industry's Crisis Writ Large 554
Original Futurama Cast Seals Deal With Fox 94
RIAA Awarded $675,000 In Tenenbaum Trial 492
Ridley Scott Directing Alien Prequel 336
Student Suing Amazon For Book Deletions 646
BSkyB To Launch 3D TV Service In 2010 95
RIAA Says "Don't Expect DRMed Music To Work Forever" 749
EMI Only Selling CDs To Mega-Chains From Now On 334
Tetraktys 216
The Pirate Bay Is Being Sued Again 224
Netflix Prize Contest Ends, Down To the Wire 100
92% of Windows PCs Vulnerable To Zero-Day Attacks On Flash 286
Music Industry Thriving In an Era of File Sharing 174
Jeff Bezos Offers Apology For Erasing 1984 437
How The Matrix Online Went Wrong 144
New Leader In Netflix Prize Race With One Day To Go 87
AVG Update Breaks iTunes 185
EFF Urges Pressure On Google Over Book Search 37
U of Michigan and Amazon To Offer 400,000 OOP Books 160
Music Game Genre On the Decline 225
Sam Raimi To Direct World of Warcraft Movie 298
Roku Set-Top Box Gets A/V Aggregation Service 66
OC ReMix Releases Final Fantasy 4 Tribute Album 52
The Geek Atlas 145
RIAA Spokesman Says DRM Is Dead 154
Up To 10% of CD-Rs Fail Within a Few Years 317
Kazaa To Return As a Legal Subscription Service 133
Danish Expert Declares Vinland Map Genuine 210
Rock Band To Allow Independent Artists To Add Their Own Songs 57
Futurama Voices Could Be Recast 260
Amazon Pulls Purchased E-Book Copies of 1984 and Animal Farm 645
Court Appoints Pro Bono Counsel For RIAA Defendant 123
New Developments In NPG/Wikipedia Lawsuit Threat 345
NASA Releases Restored Apollo 11 Video, But Originals Lost 173
LoTR Lawsuit Threatens Hobbit Production 427
Apple Update Means Palm Pre Can No Longer Sync With iTunes 841
New Service Converts Torrents Into PNG Images 297
Microsoft Readies a Rival To Spotify 216
Pandora Wants Radio Stations To Pay For Music, Too 253
Hello World! 199
UK's National Portrait Gallery Threatens To Sue Wikipedia User 526
RIAA Moves To Keep Revenue Info Secret 130
Experimental Fees Settle Royalty War For Internet Radio 270
CJKV Information Processing 2nd ed. 52
Pandora Stabilizes, No Longer Completely Free 268
British Library Puts Oldest Surviving Bible Online 568
VLC 1.0.0 Released 419
Don't Copy That Floppy! Gets a Sequel 523
Beautiful Security 81
Why Amazon's Kindle Should Use Open Standards 315
The Technology of Neuromancer After 25 Years 203
Pirate Party Coming To Canada 394
Good PDF Reader Device With Internet Browsing? 167
Jammie Thomas To Appeal $1.9 Million RIAA Verdict 204
Amazon Wants Patent For Inserting Ads Into Books 219
Is the Kindle DX Worth the Money? 263
iPhone Vulnerability Yields Root Access Via SMS 186
HTML Tags For Academic Printing? 338
DOJ Confirms Google Antitrust Investigation 186
Browser Vendors Force W3C To Scrap HTML 5 Codecs 640
Universal Lands Rights To Asteroids Movie 194
The Twitter Book 88
RIAA Victory Over Usenet.com In Copyright Case 289
BD+ Resealed Once Again 460
Malcolm Gladwell Challenges the Idea of "Free" 206
Pirate Bay Announces Sale to Swedish Company For $7.8 Million 406
13-Year-Old Trades iPod For a Walkman For a Week 354
NASA Requests Help With Von Braun's Notes 148
Boxee vs. Zinc vs. Hulu 116
Licensing Issues Shut Down Pandora Outside US 248
Text Comments Out In YouTube "National Discussion" of Health Care 287
Has NASA Found the Lost Moon Tapes? 222
Study Claims Point-of-Sale Activation Could Generate Billions In Revenue 140
Microsoft To Offer Windows 7 On USB Thumb Drives? 259
Netflix Prize May Have Been Achieved 83
The Simpsons Worth More Per Viewer On Hulu Than On Fox 191
Copyfraud Is Stealing the Public Domain 263
Pirate Bay Retrial Denied, Judge Declared Unbiased 331
Iran Tries To Pacify Protesters With Lord of The Rings Marathon 419
A Practical Guide to Ubuntu Linux 2nd ed. 85
35,000-Year-Old Flute Is Oldest Music Instrument Ever Found 139
Rapidshare Ordered To Filter Content 161
Alleged Plagiarism In Chris Anderson's New Book 138
Watch TV On Your Satnav 225
ASCAP Wants To Be Paid When Your Phone Rings 461
Kodak Kills Kodachrome 399
Blu-ray Adoption Soft, More Still Own HD DVD 685
Kindle, Zune DRM Restrictions Coming Into Focus 311
How RIAA Case Should Have Played Out 296
Questioning Mozilla's Plans For HTML5 Video 242
Ray Bradbury Loves Libraries, Hates the Internet 600
Analysis of MediaSentry Wins Music-Download Suit 51
Doctorow Says Google & Amazon Stifle Progress 162
Wikipedia To Add Video 165
In Round 2, Jammie Thomas Jury Awards RIAA $1,920,000 793
Game Design: A Practical Approach 85
Kindle Pricing, Business Models and Source Code 156
Thomas' Testimony and the RIAA's Near-Fatal Error 283
Virgin-Universal Deal Offers Unlimited Music, Goes After File Sharers 254
Drupal 6: Ultimate Community Site Guide 63
YouTube, HTML5, and Comparing H.264 With Theora 361
RIAA Case, Capitol vs. Thomas #2, Starts Monday 166
World Copyright Summit and the Lies of the Copyright Industry 423
Game, DVD Sales Hurting Music Industry More Than Downloads 223
DRM Group Set To Phase Out "Analog Hole" 417
UK Gang Caught After $750K Online Music Fraud Scam 101
US Switch To DTV Countdown Begins 293
DOJ Turns Up the Heat On Google's Book Deal 64
Wired for War 252
Camara Goes On Offense Against the RIAA 316
Comedy Central Confirms 26 New Futurama Episodes 259
Pixar's Next Three Films Will Be Sequels 379
California To Move To Online Textbooks 468
MS Details Last.fm on Xbox Live, Marketplace Changes 82
Futurama Rumored To Return On Comedy Central 259
The Futurological Congress 82
Epix Provides "Free" HD Studio Content Via TV and Internet 68
Lies, Damned Lies, and the UK Copyright Industry 219
The Perils of DRM — When Content Providers Die 275
RIAA Wants To Bar Jammie From Making Objections 306
Anti-Piracy Dog Uncovers Huge Cache of Discs 283
Hulu May Begin Charging For Video Content 313
Palm Pre "iTunes Hack" Detailed By DVD Jon 338
Music Streaming to Overtake Downloads 254
Download Taxes As a Weapon Against File-Sharing 451
Money For Nothing and the Codecs For Free 206
Vintage Games 159
US DTV Patent Royalties Are $24–$40 262
Firefox 3.5 Beta Boosts Open Video Standard 281
Last.fm Strongly Denies Sharing Data With RIAA 122
Cloud Computing, Music Lockers, and the Supreme Court 84
SQL in a Nutshell 86
CoS Bigwig Likens Wikipedia Ban to Nazis' Yellow Star Decree 567
Time Warner ToS Changes Could Mean Tiered Pricing, Throttling 162
Obama DoJ Goes Against Film Companies 321
Software Enables Re-Creation of 'Lost' Instrument 136
What To Do With 78 USB Drives Next Christmas? 381
SOE Pulls the Plug On The Matrix Online 111
Hulu Testing Client App; Boxee Dispute Explained 166
Empirical Study Shows DRM Encourages Infringement 375
Xbox To Get Live TV and Massive VOD Update 124
How Comic Fans & Shops Are Stereotyped 387
Is Playing a DVD Harder Than Rocket Science? 464
Beginning Python Visualization 46
Rates Lowered For Streamed Music In the UK 94
Nanotech Memory Could Hold Data For 1 Billion Years 239
RIAA MediaSentry, Dead In US, Is Alive In Australia 305
Amazon & TuneCore To Cut Out the RIAA Middleman 291
Original Cast On Board For Ghostbusters 3 444
More Americans Play Video Games Than Go To Movies 183
On iPhone, Searching For Kama Sutra = Porn 283
Sarah Connor Chronicles — Why It Died 834
Researchers Store Optical Data In Five Dimensions 239
Space Vulture 73
RIAA Victim Jammie Thomas Gets a New Lawyer 241
Toshiba Sues Over DVD Patents 131
Scribd Becomes a DRM-Optional E-Bookstore 93
Front End Drupal 68
Do We Want ISPs Penalizing Music Fans? 263
Embedding Video In a Site For iPhone/iPod? 68
Sony Pictures CEO Thinks the Net Wasn't Worth It 562
Danger Mouse Releases Blank CD-R To Spite EMI 296
Jammie Thomas May Face RIAA Trial Alone 143
Guitar Hero 5 To Allow Duplicate Instruments, Easy Switching 43
How Google's High Speed Book Scanner De-Warps Pages 209

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