Movie search website FindAnyFilm.com has added a number of UltraViolet-enabled titles to its website. This comes with a series of other new features to the site, including improved design and the integration of the EE Film Store data from the UK’s first 4G network provider. With the aim of quickly connecting audiences with legal content services, and gently nudging them [...]
Digital file-sharing technology company BitTorrent and digital movie distribution specialist Cinedigm are joining forces to promote new movie Arthur Newman, an initiative that helps give the service a degree of legitimacy given its past association with illegal activities. Cinedigm will invite fans to view – exclusively – the first seven minutes of the film – a romantic comedy starring Colin [...]
Cloud-based video streaming service Voddler has launched its LiveShelf global video streaming service, featuring ViewShare, a solution the Stockhom-based company suggests creates a legal way for consumers to acquire and share movies. The global roll-out – albeit in beta initially – covers Sweden and Spain, with the rest of Europe and Russia by the end of the week, with subsequent [...]
Although admitting that digital content ownership ecosystem UltraViolet was of interest to Sky as a means of continuing to make its movie content more widely available to its customers, Ian Lewis, BSkyB’s Director of Sky Movies and Sky Box Office has suggested that it is not yet ready for deployment by the satellite broadcaster. Speaking at the PEVE Entertainment 2013 [...]
MPAA Chairman and CEO Chris Dodd has called on US movie theatre owners to join the film industry trade body in speaking out against the threat of piracy, warning of “devastating” consequences if copyright law and respect for intellectual property continues to be undermined and unenforced. Delivering a keynote speech at CinemaCon, the official convention of The National Association of [...]
The UK film, TV, video and music industries have joined forces with Internet safety charity, Childnet International, to launch a campaign to provide clarity for parents and teachers when it comes to accessing music, films, TV and video safely and legally on the Internet. The Industry Trust for IP Awareness (which represents the film and TV industry in the UK) [...]
Walmart’s streaming service Vudu has advised users to change passwords after a security breach. Unusually, the action was taken following the theft of several hard drives rather than a hack attack. The channel said the disks contained names and other personal details about its customers. It added that passwords saved onto the drives were stored in a scrambled form and [...]
Two film studios have asked Google to take down links to messages sent by them requesting the removal of links connected to film piracy. All the 20 million ‘takedown’ requests Google receives each month are all published online. Fox and Universal Studios think by making the notices available, Google is unintentionally highlighting the location of allegedly pirated material, say some [...]
The Scottish Premier League (SPL) is facing a £1.7 million (€2m) damages claim over its bid to stop a pub group screening live matches via a Polish broadcaster. The SPL secured a court order in 2007 preventing Lisini Pub Management showing games at ex-Celtic star Harry Hood’s bar, Angels, in Uddingston. The ban was rescinded after the European Court found [...]
US content owners’ battle against online piracy has received a significant boost with the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issuing a unanimous decision against the website isoHunt for “inducing” users to download and distribute copyrighted material such as movies and TV programmes illegally. “Today’s ruling represents an important step toward realising the enormous potential of the Internet [...]
