Media Stories for 2011

Boxee 1.5 Will Be the Last Supported Desktop Version 113
Ask Slashdot: Best Kit For a Home Media Server? 355
Aging Consoles Find New Life As Video Streamers 255
Google Deal Allegedly Lets UMG Wipe YouTube Videos It Doesn't Own 392
Nightingale Media Player Preview Released 79
Taking a Look At Kindle Format 8 76
Corporate Claims On Public Domain YouTube Videos 320
Does Mega Media Control 90% of Content? 231
Royalty-Free MPEG Video Proposals Announced 108
Webhosting For A Large Art Project? 137
Netflix CEO Comments On Recent Decisions 360
Web Usage-Based Billing On Its Way 397
Good Disk Library Solutions? 371
Ask Slashdot: Best Camera For Getting Into Photography? 569
$350 Hardware Cracks HDMI Copy Protection 161
Whither the Portable Optical Drive? 440
'Arrested Development' Comes Exclusively To Netflix 201
Occupy Flash? 507
How Litigation Only Spurred On P2P File Sharing 140
Microsoft Killing Silverlight? 324
Adobe Ends Development of Flash On Mobile Browsers 485
A Brief History of Failed Digital Rights Management Schemes 149
B&N Nook Tablet vs. Amazon Kindle Fire 138
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Won't Fit On a CD 488
Ask Florian Kaps of the Impossible Project 61
Redbox Raises Its Prices To $1.20 Per Day 232
Netflix Expanding Streaming Service to The UK and Ireland 78
The Kindle is Getting Support For HTML5 123
Librarian Attacks Amazon's Kindle Lending Program 191
SMH Outs Copyright-Violation Hunters As Porn-Pushing Brothers 80
Pennsylvania Supreme Court Tweets Rulings 38
Soon, No More Film Movie Cameras 227
Netflix Kills Qwikster 253
Should Book Authors Pursue a Patronage Model? 342
Movie Industry: Loss of Control Worse Than Piracy 360
Zune Dead, Then Not Dead, Then Officially Dead 181
Put On Your 3D Glasses — Class Is About To Start 80
Ask Slashdot: Best Long-Term Video/Picture Storage? 499
Purdue Researchers Demonstrate Low-Power, Fast FeTRAM Memory 50
VLC Player For Android Is Almost a Reality 144
The Looming Video Codec Fight 235
Ask Slashdot: Recovering Data From 20-Year-Old Diskettes? 375
British Govt Debates Swapping Printers For iPads 237
Senators Slam Firm For Online Background Check 196
Netflix Creates Qwikster For DVD Only Business 481
Famous Wildlife Photographer Busted For Using Stock Images 182
Windows 8 Won't Support Plug-Ins; the End of Flash? 661
YouTube Disables Comments and User Uploads For Korean Users 237
Adobe Brings Flash-Free Flash To iOS Devices 178
Ask Slashdot: Passively Cooled Hardware For Game Emulation? 229
Verizon Makes It Easy To Go Over Your Data Cap 166
Breaking Motion Capture Out of the Studio 39
Start-Up Claims Immortality For Data With 'Stone-Like' Disc 261
Ripping CDs Set To Be Legalized In UK 156
DARPA Developing Video Parser 29
Zediva Shut Down By Federal Judge, MPAA Parties! 189
GE Bets On Holographic Optical Storage 159
OK Go Goes HTML5 171
Wal-Mart Jumps Into Video Streaming 150
Public AAC Listening Test @ ~96 Kbps [July 2011]. 277
Netflix Killing DVDs Like Apple Killed Floppies? 345
Second Life Mine Simulation Receives an Emmy Nomination 65
Aaron Swartz Indicted in Attempted Piracy of Four Million Documents 174
Netflix Deflects Rage Over Price Increase 722
Netflix Announces Streaming Only Plans and Higher Prices for DVDs 488
Interview With the Editors of Libre Graphics Magazine 51
News of the World Investigation Expanded to 9/11 Victims 135
Sony Announces End For MiniDisc Walkman 191
Creating a Mac OS X 10.7 Lion Bootable Flash Drive 206
Media Companies Create Copyright Enforcement Framework 219
Illegal Film Downloading Up 33% In the UK 259
Twitter As Realtime Sports Reporter 47
Is Final Cut Pro X Apple's Biggest Mistake In Years? 443
'Dead Media' Never Really Die 85
FTC Okays Social Media Background Check Company 229
Ask Slashdot: Software To Organise a Heterogeneous Mix of Files? 254
Student Suspended For Posting On YouTube 375
YouTube Introduces Creative Commons Option 34
Tennessee Makes it Illegal To Share Your Netflix Password 495
Alaska Airlines Jettisons Paper Manuals For iPads 220
Flight 447 'Black Box' Decoded 449
Anti-Porn Facebook Page is Deleted, Then Restored 145
FSF On How To Choose a License 210
New Bill Ups Punishment For Hosts of Infringing Video Streams 278
Facebook's Broad Patent On Digital Media Tagging 61
Canadian Music Industry Seeks Copy Tax On Memory Cards 265
Zediva Fights Back Against MPAA 112
Netflix Available For Android 162
Adobe Rolls Out Privacy Controls In Flash Player 10.3 63
Museum Helps Domesday Reloaded Project 70
Comcast Helps Fix Pirate Bay Connection Problems 237
TwitPic Will Sell Your Photos, But No Cash For You 102
Over 7.5 Million Facebook Users Are Under 13 194
Unarchiver Provides LGPL RARv3 Extraction Tool 183
Kdenlive 0.8 Adds Advanced Features for NLV Editing 182
Adobe Ships Flash Player 10.2 For Android 3.x 39
$53 Million Pledged To Kickstarter Over Two Years 73
Google Will Save Videos After All 69
Ask Slashdot: Are You Streaming-Only For Home Entertainment? 697
YouTube Now Transcoding All New Uploads To WebM 267
Why Has Blu-ray Failed To Catch Hold? 1162
Adobe Adopts HTTP Live Streaming For iOS 97
Today Is Record Store Day 2011 108
Google Videos Going Offline; Time To Grab What You Want 131
Maqetta: Open Source HTML5 Editor From IBM 121
NZ MP Enjoys Copyright Infringement, Votes For 3 Strikes 220
Next-Gen Low-Latency Open Codec Beats HE-AAC 166
Flash On Android Fails To Impress 436
'Scrapers' Dig Deep For Data On Web 158
Google Rolling Out Live Streaming For YouTube 60
US Students Suffering From Internet Addiction 314
The Facebook Obsession 265
California Library's Plan: Get Rid of Books 197
Engineering Election Debates With Subtle Cues 105
CD Ripper 'Incites Law Breaking,' Says British Regulator 204
50% of Tweets Consumed Come From .05% of Users 141
Ask Slashdot: Huge Digital Media Libraries 361
CCIA Calls Copyright Wiretaps 'Hollywood's PATRIOT Act' 150
Is the Business Card Dead? 370
Time Warner Cable Cuts iPad Live TV Access 50% 225
Time Warner Cable Launches iPad App With Live TV 141
Man Arrested For Linking To Online Videos 308
Flickr Censors Egypt Police Photos 163
Crime Writer Makes a Killing With 99 Cent E-Books 445
Virgin Media UK Begins Throttling P2P Traffic 220
Piracy In Developing Countries Driven By High Prices 235
Posting AC - a Thing of the Past? 390
Boxee Scores $16.5M Investment 77
eBook Lending Library Launched 145
Motorola Xoom Won't Have Flash Support At Launch 187
Goodbye, HD Component Video 469
Proposed Standard Would Address Video Buffering 118
E-Book Lending Stands Up To Corporate Mongering 259
DailyMotion Now Streaming Live News 48
Microsoft Offers H.264 Plug-in For Google Chrome 332
Tech-Unfriendly Cafes Say No Kindles Allowed 375
MPEG Continues With Royalty-free MPEG Video Codec Plans 139
Ebooks Finally Included On the NYT BestSeller List 32
Are Flickr Images Abused By Foreign Businesses? 227
News Corp. and Apple Unveil The Daily 249
Microsoft Makes Chrome Play H.264 Video 535
eBooks Nearly Outsell Print Books At Amazon 154
Google Submits VP8 Draft To the IETF 156
FSF Announces Support For WebM 333
How Do You Store Your Personal Photos? 680
Righthaven Adds Forum Posters To Copyright Suit 83
The Ambiguity of "Open" and VP8 Vs. H.264 493
VP8 Decoder Implemented In Flash Using Alchemy 94
Ars Thinks Google Takes a Step Backwards For Openness 663
Sony Closing 18M CD/Month Plant 318
Apple Pulls VLC Media Player From AppStore 754
Samsung Set To Introduce Android-Based iPod Touch Competitor 221