Media Defender, an “anti-piracy” business (or Content Cartel front) may be getting a richly deserved visit from the FBI over it’s practices, after attacking Revision3 with a Denial-of-Service attack.
Previous coverage of Media Defender shenanigans here and here.
What’s sickening is that if it was a bunch of pink-haired 16-year-olds doing this, they’d get a glorious perp-walk, [...]

Netflix sees DVD-by-mail peak in as soon as 5 years
(tags: DVD Netflix distribution)

Jury hands feds first guilty verdict for Web music piracy | Tech news blog - CNET News.com
(tags: Copyright RIAA P2P)

The Encyclopedia of Business Cliches
(tags: ideas)

Essay: Can We Stop with the Video CE Hardware Already?
(tags: settops video distribution)

Canadians Planning ‘First Massively Multi-User Online Music Festival’
(tags: music socialmedia mashups)

Background/original story: NBC “accidentally” distributed American Gladiators with the Broadcast Flag turned on.
EFF podcast/discussion:

Alan Wexelblat:
I’m talking about traveling back in time to late 2005 when the ‘net was buzzing - angrily—about a Cartel proposal to require DRM to be embedded in every broadcast signal. The end of ‘free’ TV? No more time-shifting allowed? You remember [...]

From Regine @ WMMNA, A slew (How much is a slew?) of videos:
Tate is archiving dozens of videos of artist talks, performances and cultural debate which took place in the museum from 2001 until today. They haven’t finished re-encoding all of the existing material but so far there are over 600 hours of audio and [...]

Flare Facade, a dynamic (and possibly interactive) buliding facade.

Visualizing del.icio.us

Richard Neutra’s Sten-Frenke House, rehabbed. Neutra slideshow @ AD.
an image of 26 million individual road segments. No other features (such as outlines or geographic features) have been added to this image, however they emerge as roads avoid mountains, and sparse areas convey low population. This began [...]

Flashbelt
June 8-11
Minneapolis, MN
The mission of Flashbelt is to bring together new media designers, developers and enthusiasts to share knowledge, inspiration and build community.

Microsoft Confirms That Windows Media Centers Use The Broadcast Flag
(tags: NBC DRM Copyright censorship)

Napster rolls out all-MP3 download store
(tags: mp3 music Napster businessmodels downloads)

The Authoritative Blu-ray Disc (BD) FAQ
(tags: Blu-ray HD reference)

Netflix dropped it’s first set-top box, dubbed “The Netflix Player by Roku” (Roku is a CE company founded by ReplayTV’s Anthony Wood). The device is strictly for watching “Instant Viewing” streams from your Netflix account.
The Pros:

Cheap ($100)
802.11g wireless
Firmware upgradeable (to what extent remains to be seen)
HDMI
optical audio (though no surround–the Netflix streams aren’t surround anyway)
Movies [...]

4 Great Flash 10 Tutorials
(tags: Flash tutorials)

Information Design Patterns
(tags: design development ideas interactive interface reference research usability userexperience)

Download The Dennis McKenna (brother of Terence) multimedia collection.
David Lynch’s 55 sec. film using the Lumière brothers’ original equipment (via Boing Boing)
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Also at Boing Boing, a list of psychotronic videos at the Internet Archive.

Lot’s o’ YouTube:

YouTube will be available on the upcoming HP MediaSmart Connect digital media receiver.
iPhone 2.0 will add in-browser YouTube support.
TimeTube is a mashup that creates a YouTube timeline visualization.
Make your own custom MTV with this YT/Last.fm mashup.
Playstation3 is rolling out the ability to upload in-game captures directly to YouTube.
The JVC GZ-MS100 camcorder offers one-touch [...]

iPhone DevCamp2 is August 1-3, 2008 in San Francisco. Strangely, it’s at Adobe.

Making Media Connections
June 11-12
Columbia College, Chicago
Making Media Connections is a strategy/PR/media relations workshop for non-profit/community/indie media-makers.
Join community leaders, nonprofit communicators and board members, mainstream and independent journalists, publishers, media experts and the general public to discuss getting our communities’ important stories told.
Come ready to sharpen your media relations and communications skills at workshops and panel [...]