links for 2007-10-01

Demonoid Returns, Forced to Block Canadian Traffic By the CRIA
(tags: Demonoid P2P Copyright)

Filed under: Daily Links

links for 2007-09-30

Legal Watchdog Targets Piracy on Google Video
(tags: Copyright google video distribution)

FCC commissioners: US in dire need of “national broadband strategy”
Yes…and “getting out of the way” would be a good place for the FCC to start.
(tags: FCC broadband networkPolitics)

YouTube offer Publishers AdSense Embedded Video Players
(tags: advertising google video youtube adsense)

Filed under: Daily Links

Quote of the day. iPhone edition.

On Apple’s iPhone firmware update that killed 3rd party applications:
Did I buy these phones or am I just renting them?
—Brian Lam at Gizmodo

Filed under: Apple, DRM

Jaman on AppleTV

Jaman, the online community for World-Cinema downloads, distribution and discovery, has released instructions on viewing/syncing Jaman downloads (supposedly including rentals) with AppleTV. This was rumored/announced back in June.
The hack/mod is explained in-depth at AppleTV hacks.
I’m looking forward to getting an AppleTV to hack/play with. Thinking about the possiblity of integrating it into a forthcoming project.

Filed under: AppleTV, DIY, Distribution

links for 2007-09-29

TLF: FCC Just Fining Everything in Sight
(tags: FCC censorship)

CBS Hedges Bets With Online Studio EyeLab For Short-Form, Ad-Supported Video
(tags: CBS video distribution ideas)

Q&A: Ridley Scott Has Finally Created the Blade Runner He Always Imagined
(tags: film filmmaking bladerunner)

What They Aren’t Telling us About High Definition TV
(tags: ideas HD)

Filed under: Daily Links

Radioshift: A Global radio VCR

Rogue Amoeba’s Radioshift is a neat (Mac OS) app that is essentially a VCR for over 50,000 AM/FM stations across the World. It’s $32 and has a fully functioning demo.

Filed under: Internet Radio, Software

links for 2007-09-27

Why we love sounds of the city jungle
(tags: audio art noise sound)

Demonoid Shut Down by the CRIA?
(tags: P2P torrent BitTorrent filesharing Demonoid)

Sticking a Few Pins in Vudu - Gearlog
(tags: settops P2P distribution Vudu)

Filed under: Daily Links

Downloadable: Pauline Oliveros

Early electronic works from the pioneering American composer at Different Waters.
Pauline Oliveros: Electronic Works
Wikipedia:
A central figure in post-war electronic art music, Oliveros is one of the original members of the San Francisco Tape Music Center , which was the resource on the U.S. west coast for electronic music during the 1960s. The Center later moved [...]

Filed under: Music

Online Viewing: Orson Welles’ F is for Fake

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Welles’ ingenious 1974 “documentary” about famous art forger Elmyr de Hory. From New York Review—
…the last two or three minutes after the Kodar digression, and the hour or so before the Kodar scenes, is [...]

Filed under: Film+Video

links for 2007-09-26

Blip.TV Inserts Overlay Ads Into QuickTime Movies
(tags: QuickTime advertising.technology video BlipTV)

Filed under: Daily Links

Notes On The Amazon Music Store Beta

Notes on the public beta of the Amazon Digital Music Store—
_They’ve gone out of their way to make it as x-platform as possible-even a Linux version on the way.
_Automatically adds downloaded tracks to a user’s iTunes or Windows Media Player library
_No re-downloading.
_The user interface needs some(much) work. While your at it, do [...]

Filed under: DRM, Distribution, Music

links for 2007-09-25

Starbucks to give away music as new service starts
(tags: Itunes Apple Starbucks mobile.music iPhone iPod)

Kevin Martin’s Date with (Digital) Destiny: Broadcasting & Cable
FCC Chairman on the DTV transition
(tags: FCC DTV)

Resonance FM — The Art of Listening
“Resonance 104.4 fm is London’s first radio art station” — w/MP3 and Real streams.
(tags: audio art streaming music radio)

The [...]

Filed under: Daily Links

links for 2007-09-22

Variety.com: Burn notice for DVD users
approval of standard for CSS on recordable DVDs
(tags: DVD DRM Copyright)

Filed under: Daily Links

links for 2007-09-21

19 Video APIs
(tags: video api mashups)

Lots of HDTV Channels, but No HD ?
(tags: HD Broadcast)

Embodying Sound: An interview with Bill Furlong on Audio Arts
(tags: Audio art)

Hunter Thompson Films
Oh my.
(tags: movies video hst documentary downloads)

Filed under: Daily Links

Online Viewing: Glen E. Friedman and John Maeda

John Maeda on simplicity—
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and—
Glen E. Friedman discusses his work and methodology @ SweetTalk NYC.

Filed under: Ideas, documentary, video