News "Movies" April 2011 News Archive

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Is Netflix Streaming Helping To Reduce Piracy?

Posted by: Sean F

Netflix now accounts for a huge percentage of Internet traffic in the US, outweighing piracy traffic by a significant margin ... Read more ...

Apr

2011

Paramount, Fox and Disney Say No To YouTube Rentals, Due To Piracy

Posted by: Anne N

Major studios are yet again fighting against innovation using the excuse of piracy, this time by not allowing their movies to be rented legally on YouTube ... Read more ...

Apr

2011

ICE Use Seized Domains To Spread Anti-Piracy Propaganda

Posted by: Jason F

Seized domain from the anti-piracy operation "In Our Sites" now used to display anti-piracy propaganda video ... Read more ...

Apr

2011

Blu-ray sales stats for the week ending 9th April 2011

Posted by: Sean F

Check out the US Blu-ray sales stats for the week ending 9th April 2011 ... Read more ...

Apr

2011

Harry Potter and the Missing DVDs

Posted by: Anne N

Buying Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 on DVD has never been more confusing, in the US at least ... Read more ...

Apr

2011

Blu-ray sales stats for the week ending 2nd April 2011

Posted by: Sean F

Check out the US Blu-ray sales stats for the week ending 2nd April 2011 ... Read more ...

Apr

2011

Sky Subscription Channel: Less Delays Equals Less Piracy

Posted by: Sean F

A major industry players calls for more cooperation from copyright holders to reduce delays in airing TV shows overseas, and help fight the piracy problem ... Read more ...

Apr

2011

YouTube Teaching Offenders A Lesson In Copyright

Posted by: Anne N

Copyright delinquents can now be taught a real lesson on YouTube, as YouTube's Copyright School is now open for those caught stealing ... Read more ...

Apr

2011

Kinect Navigation Added To Netflix for Xbox 360

Posted by: Jason F

You can now use Kinect to control your Xbox 360 Netflix experience, but this first version of the control software seems to be lacking in many aspects ... Read more ...

Apr

2011

Fighting Around The World, Piracy Edition

Posted by: Sean F

In the UK, Australia and even Denmark, copyright holders and their government allies are scheming new ways to stop the Internet piracy epidemic ... Read more ...

Apr

2011

Glasses and Price Turning People Off 3D TVs, NPD

Posted by: Sean F

A new NPD study has shown that people are still hesitant about embracing 3D mainly due to the need to wear glasses, while there have been dramatic price reductions for 3DTVs in the last year ... Read more ...

Apr

2011

Blu-ray sales stats for the week ending 26th March 2011

Posted by: Sean F

Check out the US Blu-ray sales stats for the week ending 26th March 2011 ... Read more ...

Apr

2011

Congress Wants Google To Do More To Stop Online Piracy, Including Filtering Results

Posted by: Sean F

Congress launch a concerted attack on search engine giant Google for failing to do more to stop online piracy ... Read more ...

Apr

2011

MPAA Sues Zediva, Calls It A "Sham"

Posted by: Sean F

Six major Hollywood studios sue Zediva, who allows users to rent DVDs and then have the DVD streamed to their homes digitally ... Read more ...

Apr

2011

Redbox Digital: Linking Up With Hulu?

Posted by: Sean F

Redbox may link up with Hulu Plus, an analyst with Merriman Capital believes ... Read more ...

Apr

2011

New Study Shows 3D Blu-ray More Stimulating, and Blu-ray "better" than DVD

Posted by: Sean F

New study shows that 3D Blu-ray is 7% "better" than normal Blu-ray, and normal Blu-ray is 12% "better" than DVD ... Read more ...

Apr

2011

MPAA and US Congress' Love Affair Blossoms, As New Legislation Being Considered

Posted by: Sean F

A bi-partisan bill aims to give the MPAA and RIAA power to have the DOJ do their bidding in shutting down websites and blacklisting others ... Read more ...

Apr

2011