As Sony Pictures presents it, the tentatively named Open Market will involve a neutral third party that will manage device registrations such as TVs, PCs and portable devices, which will then allow users to play their movie rentals or purchases on all their registered devices. The so-called domain provider will let consumers purchase devices freely […]

Dailymotion users are encouraged to share video with their friends, upload it on blogs and spread it across the web. The service is funded by advertising across channel pages with revenue shared between ITN On and Dailymotion. MUZU TV has also signed a content deal with ITN for access to 80,000 hours of content from […]

EchoStar has claimed that the receiver can be modified to pirate its satellite TV programming.The foundation said EchoStar’s demand would violate user privacy and leave innocent purchasers vulnerable to bogus legal threats. “Innocent customers should not be dragged into federal litigation just because they bought a product that other, less scrupulous purchasers may be hacking […]

Ashley Mackenzie says the company will aggregate videos and the rights to commercially exploit them, then syndicate them to what he says is a growing appetite for web video amongst small- and medium-sized destinations, like magazine websites. The focus is on short-form clips and MyVideoRights will handle all the video encoding chores on behalf of […]

Despite hundreds of non-authorised Top Gear clips already being available on YouTube, the move marks the first time BBC Worldwide has a dedicated section on YouTube for a single programme brand, complementing the existing BBC Worldwide YouTube page