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The Motley Fool
February 26, 2007
Alyce Lomax |
BitTorrent Goes Legit BitTorrent is a private entity, but it could become an interesting player in the budding digital video market, and may even help bring that market into the mainstream.   |
The Motley Fool
May 9, 2006
Alyce Lomax |
Warner Bros. Bets on BitTorrent A new deal gives file-sharing greater legitimacy. Think of it as Warner Bros.' attempt to abandon all-out war in favor of winning its former enemy over from the inside. Investors, take note. |
The Motley Fool
May 31, 2006
Alyce Lomax |
Disney's Download Deal CinemaNow and Disney team up to digitally distribute more movies. |
The Motley Fool
July 17, 2006
Alyce Lomax |
Movie Download Dreams and Dilemmas Digital downloading of feature-length movies may be an idea whose time has come. While the party may have started, there's still a lot of work and planning left to do. |
InternetNews
May 9, 2006
Nicholas Carlson |
BitTorrent Pulls Down The Jolly Roger Starting this summer, users will be able to buy Warner Bros. movies and TV shows using the BitTorrent distribution and search platform. |
PC Magazine
April 18, 2007
Francine Huff |
Can Bittorrent Go Legit? Once thought of as a way to pirate movies, BitTorrent has gone legit. |
The Motley Fool
August 14, 2006
Alyce Lomax |
News Corp.'s Foxy Plans The media conglomerate starts to show the big picture online. This story shows that News Corp.'s back in the game -- and it's obviously got a lot of tricks up its sleeve as it plays to win. |
InternetNews
November 29, 2006
Nicholas Carlson |
BitTorrent Partners With The Man Again BitTorrent announced a slate of partnerships with film and television companies, such as 20th Century Fox, G4, Kadokawa Pictures USA and others. |
InternetNews
October 9, 2007
Andy Patrizio |
BitTorrent Goes Legit with Content Delivery Service Controversial peer-to-peer file sharing company BitTorrent, Inc., is making new moves toward establishing itself as a legitimate content delivery play, today unveiling a business service designed to quickly and cheaply stream media to users' desktops. |
The Motley Fool
July 11, 2006
Alyce Lomax |
A BitTorrential Disruption? Change is afoot in the media industry, and many companies will have to stay nimble, take some chances, and maybe even break with conventional wisdom if they want to stay ahead of the game. |
The Motley Fool
April 3, 2006
Alyce Lomax |
Want Movie Downloads? Pay Up! Digital movie downloads? Good. Paying $30 a pop? Not so good. Given the fees and the limitations involved, it seems that this development mostly pays lip service to the nascent digital downloading industry. |
BusinessWeek
October 30, 2006
Heather Green |
What Comes After YouTube Meet the startups making deals with Big Media for online video's next step. |
The Motley Fool
August 22, 2006
Alyce Lomax |
A Plot Spoiler for Apple? Coming soon: movies on iTunes? Lions Gate gives away a bit of the ending. How should shareholders react? |
Home Theater
October 15, 2007 |
BitTorrent Hankers for Respectability BitTorrent has been doing business with Hollywood for awhile now. |
BusinessWeek
October 2, 2006
Stephen H. Wildstrom |
Still Not Ready For Prime Time Movie downloads can't be easily viewed on a TV. But Apple plans to fix that when it introduces a $299 product with the working title of iTV. |
The Motley Fool
June 19, 2006
Alyce Lomax |
Apple's Slow Burn Is Apple lagging behind in digital movie downloads? Apple used to be the first mover in digital content, and its investors may be disconcerted to wonder whether the company's coming late to the party for a change. |
The Motley Fool
July 26, 2006
Alyce Lomax |
Warner Bros., iTunes Make 'Friends' More classic content is set for availability on iTunes. The most important element for investors to contemplate here is that in many ways, old-fashioned TV distribution is losing its dominance. |
PC Magazine
March 15, 2006
Sebastian Rupley |
Net Film Distribution Coup Quantum Streaming technology lets users execute lickety-split downloads of high-definition video content over standard broadband lines. |
InternetNews
March 10, 2006
Ed Sutherland |
Amazon Latest in Video Download Arena? The giant is reportedly thinking about it, but the services, while gaining popularity, are still 'not a slam dunk.' |
PC Magazine
January 18, 2006
Norton & Metz |
Must Download TV Though broadband video has traditionally been the domain of pirates and a few little-known but perfectly legal online operations, it's now going mainstream in a big way... BitPump 1.0... BitTorrent Client 4.2... Torrent 1.2.2... etc. |
Fast Company
December 2005 |
Peer-to-peer: The Problem is the Solution The future of film distribution will take a cue from the pirates of today. |
Fast Company
Sarah Kessler |
The Infinite Lives Of BitTorrent Most people know BitTorrent as a technology used to illegally download music and movies, but what few realize is that it's also a company, a venture-backed startup like any other. |
Home Theater
September 21, 2007 |
Apple May Rent Movies Apple is in "advanced talks" with studios over a new scheme that would offer 30-day download rentals for $2.99 via iTunes |
Fast Company
David Lumb |
BitTorrent Lays Off 40 Employees The cuts were made in an effort to streamline business and focus on a smaller suite of products. |
InternetNews
February 6, 2007
Nicholas Carlson |
Wal-Mart Joins Video Download Party All the major studios are on board. Is Apple's iTunes store in trouble? |
The Motley Fool
October 3, 2006
Alyce Lomax |
Jobs Goes to Wal-Mart? There's speculation that Wal-Mart and Apple may partner on movie downloads. Investors, take note. |
The Motley Fool
September 12, 2006
Alyce Lomax |
Is Apple's News Underwhelming? Today was showtime for Apple investors, but was the show interesting enough? |
InternetNews
December 27, 2007 |
Amazon Adds Warner Music to MP3 Downloads Amazon.com has signed on Warner Music Group to its music download service, which aims to compete with Apple's industry-dominating iTunes online store. |
The Motley Fool
September 19, 2005
Alyce Lomax |
Movie Studios vs. Jolly Rogers Major movie studios are banding together against piracy. While the goals are perfectly understandable, investors should hope that the studios keep a careful eye on controlling piracy while encouraging new means of digital distribution for their content. |
Popular Mechanics
March 2007
Glenn Derene |
Movie Download Site Comparison: Test Drive The future of buying and renting movies is streaming now to a PC near you. But not all online flicks are equal. Here's what you get with your near-instant gratification. |
BusinessWeek
April 9, 2007
Stephen H. Wildstrom |
Now Playing: Digital Disarray Hollywood's piracy fears are stifling online video expansion. |
The Motley Fool
June 27, 2006
Alyce Lomax |
Chasing the Crowd Warner Bros. and NBC are well aware of the fact that they need to be part of the Internet crowd. Investors should be relieved at signs that their companies are finally responding -- and can expect a lot of additional change on the way. |
InternetNews
March 4, 2004
Jim Wagner |
Lindows Grabs BitTorrent By The Bit Figuring they can save money using peer-to-peer technology (P2P), alternative operating system developers Lindows is giving customers 50 percent discounts if they download using BitTorrent. |
The Motley Fool
February 13, 2007
Tim Beyers |
Apple at the Lions Gate More movies are coming to iTunes. Lions Gate joins Disney and Paramount in offering films via the increasingly popular downloading site. |
The Motley Fool
May 31, 2007
Tim Beyers |
An Apple for Gootube Adding YouTube videos to Apple TV is innovative and could easily disrupt every firm involved with the delivery of content over the airwaves. How might this deal help investors? |
InternetNews
February 7, 2007
Nicholas Carlson |
Amazon, TiVo Cut Digital Deal A new feature of Amazon Unbox, will allow TiVo subscribers to rent and purchase movies and television shows from studios and networks. |
BusinessWeek
September 29, 2003 |
Jim Ramo, Movielink Music labels saw sales plummet by 7% last year as pirates downloaded songs for free. To avoid a repeat in their industry, the major movie studios called upon Jim Ramo, a 56-year-old former cable exec, to run their film download site. |
D-Lib
Mar/Apr 2014
Markman & Zavras |
BitTorrent and Libraries: Cooperative Data Publishing, Management and Discovery We explore the opportunities afforded by the BitTorrent protocol. We also discuss what happens when libraries adopt a distributed, grassroots approach to data management that saves money and lays the groundwork for online community. |
Home Theater
May 1, 2008 |
iTunes, DVD Are Now Day-and-Date Equals Apple has struck a deal with Hollywood to give iTunes the same release window as brick-and-mortar stores. |
BusinessWeek
October 24, 2005
Peter Burrows |
Hollywood Holds Its Breath The iPod - and Disney's blessing - could create a mass audience for video on the go. |
InternetNews
December 27, 2007 |
Up Next For Apple's iTunes: Movie Rentals? Apple and Twentieth Century Fox are set to announce a deal that will allow consumers to rent Fox movies through Apple's digital iTunes Store. |
Wired
February 25, 2008
Frank Rose |
Dear Hollywood Studios: If You Hold Digital Downloads Hostage, the Pirates Win We should no longer have to drive to the video store or wait for the mail carrier. But that's not the case. The entertainment industry is blowing it once again. |
BusinessWeek
July 14, 2003
Grover & Green |
Hollywood Heist Will tinseltown let techies steal the show? The ripping and burning of movies to DVDs is growing into a global underground industry that last year cost film studios an estimated $3 billion in lost DVD sales. It's prodding the guys in Guccis into action. |
PC World
October 26, 2006
Dan Tynan |
Movie Downloads Are Still a Flop Skipping the video store sounds good, but don't count on it anytime soon. |
InternetNews
November 23, 2005
Sean Michael Kerner |
BitTorrent Cleans Up Illegal content won't be linked anymore from BitTorrent.com, but will it stop BitTorrent from being used for piracy? |
Fast Company
November 2006 |
Fast Talk: Now Playing How Thomas McInerney's Guba beat out the bigs in the race to offer legal movie downloads. |
Knowledge@Wharton
July 2, 2003 |
Online Music Wings its Way to the Celestial Jukebox In a celestial jukebox, instead of downloading songs to a computer hard drive or burning them onto a CD, listeners log onto a site that streams the music directly to their computers for immediate listening. It's like having your own all-request FM channel. |
PC World
October 2004
Michael Desmond |
Sneaky Sharing Despite well-publicized wins by piracy foes, illegal digital music and movie trading continues to flourish in underground havens. |
BusinessWeek
April 2, 2007
Stephen H. Wildstrom |
Apple TV's Blurry Future For now, there's too little content available to make the box worthwhile. |
The Motley Fool
October 3, 2005
Alyce Lomax |
Music's Mixed Messages Digital downloading of music -- the legal way -- continues to gain momentum. The rapidly growing market for digital music underlines why so many companies are eyeing Apple's success and hoping to get their piece of the market. |
