Media Stories for 2013

France's 'Culture Tax' Could Hit YouTube and Facebook 314
Run Netflix On OpenSUSE 128
Roku Finally Adds YouTube To Its Iconic Media Player 80
Disney Pulls a Reverse Santa, Takes Back Christmas Shows From Amazon Customers 418
Firefox Gains Support for VP9 Video Codec 129
Google Makes Latest Chrome Build Open PDFs By Default 202
Legislation Would Prohibit ISPs From Throttling Online Video Services 222
Your Digital Life Will Only Get More Crowded... If You Let It 53
Blockbuster To Close Remaining US Locations 419
Meet Slashdot 'Super Submitter' Esther Schindler (Video) 53
Billion Year Storage Media 204
More From Don Marti About Why Targeted Ads are Bad (Video 2 of 2) 53
Longtime Linux Advocate Don Marti Tells Why Targeted Ads are Bad (Video 1 of 2) 187
VLC Reaches 2.1 127
BitTorrent "Bundles" Create Cash Registers Inside Artwork 97
Vimeo Held Covered By DMCA Safe Harbor 51
Why Steve Albini Still Prefers Analog Tape 440
GNU MediaGoblin 0.5.0 "Goblin Force" Released 42
Google Breaks ChromeCast's Ability To Play Local Content 329
Netflix Comes To Linux Web Browsers Via 'Pipelight' 303
IPTV Providers To Pay Same Regulatory Fees As Cable Companies 97
Bill Gates Seeking Patent To Make Shakespeare Less Boring 338
The Pirate Bay Is 10 Years Old: 'We Really Didn't Think We'd Make It This Far' 177
Comcast Working On 'Helpful' Copyright Violation Pop-ups 284
YouTube Co-founder Calls For Global Access To TV Online 140
Creator of xkcd Reveals Secret Back-story of His Epic, 3,099-Panel 'Time' Comic 187
Battle of the Media Ecosystems: Amazon, Apple, Google and Microsoft 79
Sony & Panasonic Plan Next-Gen 300 GB Optical Discs By the End of 2015 289
Post Office Proposes Special Rate For Mailing DVDs 176
Google Chromecast Reviewed; Google Nixes Netflix Discount 128
Ask Slashdot: Keeping Digital Media After Imaging? 122
Next-Gen Video Encoding: x265 Tackles HEVC/H.265 104
Former WaPo Staffer Rob Pegoraro Talks About Newspapers' Decline (Video) 79
13 Years After DeCSS Case, Congressional IT Endorses VLC 106
VLC For iOS Returns On July 19, Rewritten and Fully Open-Sourced 203
Piracy Rates Plummet As Legal Alternatives Come To Norway 261
HBO Asks Google To Take Down "Infringing" VLC Media Player 364
Ask Slashdot: Video Streaming For the Elderly? 165
How DRM Won 221
Boxee Sold To Samsung 128
Why Automakers Should Stop the Infotainment Arms Race 317
MagicPlay: the Open Source AirPlay 177
Reject DRM and You Risk Walling Off Parts of the Web, Says W3C Chief 433
Netflix Ditches Silverlight With HTML5 Support In IE11 337
Next-Next Generation Video: Introducing Daala 86
Google Enables VP9 Video Codec In Chromium 161
Intel Streaming Media Service Faces An Uphill Battle for Bandwidth 82
POTI, Creators of the Songbird Media Player, Call It Quits 67
Debian Says Remove Unofficial Debian-Multimedia.org Repository From Your Sources 159
Kodak Ends Production of Acetate Base For Photographic Film 137
UK ISPs Secretly Start Blocking Torrent Site Proxies 82
DRM: How Book Publishers Failed To Learn From the Music Industry 212
Canon DSLR Hack Allows It To Shoot RAW Video 171
WeVideo Helps You Edit Your Videos Online (Video) 48
Over 100 Hours of Video Uploaded To YouTube Every Minute 83
Google's Nexus Q Successor Hits the FCC 56
Anti-Infringement Company Caught Infringing On Its Website 135
DRM In HTML5 — Better Than the Alternative? 268
Microsoft YouTube App Strips Ads; Adds Download 381
Realtime GPU Audio 157
Copyright Squabble Threatens Accessibility Boost for the Blind 61
How Netflix Eats the Internet 303
Campaign Raises Funds To Send Wikipedia Readers To Kids Without Internet 97
Today Is International Day Against DRM 256
A Critique of the Boston Bombing News Coverage (Video) 175
OpenShot Close To Funding Final Stretch Goal: Video Editing Server 32
Netflix Wants To Go HTML5, But Not Without DRM 394
Ask Slashdot: What's the Best Way To Preserve a "Digital Inheritance"? 191
Apple Near Deal For Radio Service 143
Fox, Univision May Go Subscription To Stop Aereo 306
Video Editor Kdenlive 0.9.6 Released 95
Ask Slashdot: Linux Friendly Video Streaming? 147
BlackBerry 10 Can BBM Anything You're Watching, Even Porn 104
Roku Finally Gets a 2D Menu System 80
KDE Releases Plasma Media Center 1.0 22
The Real Purpose of DRM 213
Golf Channel Testing Out New Octo-copter Drone To Film Golfers This Weekend 97
Internet Defense League To Be Deployed Against CISPA 71
The Largely Unknown Success Story of Afghanistan's Television Network 78
Video Inpainting Software Deletes People From HD Video Footage 124
'Freedom of Information, Finally Made Easy' by MuckRock (Video) 43
Netflix Using HTML5 Video For ARM Chromebook 232
Google and MPEG LA Reach VP8 Patent Agreement 112
Apple Patent Describes iTunes Reselling and Loaning System 97
Xiph Episode 2: Digital Show & Tell 50
NASCAR Tries To Squelch Video of Spectators Injured By Crash 359
Software That Flagged HBO.com For Piracy Will Power U.S. 'Six Strikes' System 292
Why Australian Telco's Plan To Shape BitTorrent Traffic Won't Work 84
Sony To Make Its Last MiniDisc System Next Month 263
Wall Street Journal Hit By Chinese Hackers, Too 92
XBMC 12.0 'Frodo' Released: PVR-Support, HD Audio and More 146
Public Library Exclusively For Digital Media Proposed 90
Ask Slashdot: Keeping Your Media Library Safe From Kids? 307
What Could Have Been In the Public Domain Today, But Isn't 309