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After three months in the wild as something of an editorial/aggregator for following news and opinion regarding online file sharing, p2p and the surrounding culture. Industry Meme as an experiment in introducing online conversations to film executives, the industry trust and piracy units in the UK is evolving.

On the right hand side you will see aggregated feeds, selected posts from across 100’s of online blogs, feeds and opinions. These are sourced and tagged daily.

They are you first port of call for delving into popular, well known and sometimes lesser known sites, all publishing news and opinion forming commentary on online file sharing, p2p and it’s effect/relation to the film industry.

Industry Meme is currently investigating narrowing down these feeds, cultivating a useful tool for industry executives out in the open, on a publicly viewable site and exploring more of a push/pull relationship with it’s subscribers via email mail outs.

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For those interested in subscribing to the feeds in their own way via RSS, browser or desktop app. The main feeds are;

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• Featured [daily - editorial pick of stories directly related to file-sharing, p2p]
• Pro File-Sharing [daily - aggregated multi feed from top opinion formers]
• Technology [daily -  aggregated multi feed from popular tech news sites with a p2p slant]
• Legal [daily - aggregated multi feed from popular tech news and legal opinion/news sites with a legal issue slant]
• “piracy” filtered via Technorati [daily - automated feed of commentary and conversation from across the blogosphere] 
• “p2p” filtered via Technorati [daily - automated feed of commentary and conversation from across the blogosphere] 

Traditional industry meme content can be found here or by clicking ‘blog’ from the header at the top of the page.

The new editorial for the site will be towards identifying where and how conversations are happening rather than covering them - it is necessary at first to facilitate the industry’s involvement and ability to find and digest online conversation, before any meaningful editorial.

In the main, content will be posted daily with a leading story from the online community featured.

NB. Feeds are constantly evolving with both new sources being added and old removed to refine content.

A Welcome back to returning visitors and hello to new friends alike.

MTV Networks will make every episode of South Park available for free online in 2008. The availability of South Park signals the start of much more of MTV Network’s back catalogue being made available in this way. [Via Reuters]

The release via Reuters does not stipulate whether the show will be released unencumbered, however much has been made of Comedy Central’s early foray into online distribution  where they have an extensive amount of unprotected content at their www.comedycentral.com.

TechDirt brings an interesting opinion to the table, that from it’s origin the popularity of South Park stemmed from the sharing of the show online. Indeed South Park has often dealt with online culture and online piracy. [Via TechDirt]

Nearly a decade ago Comedy Central was attempting to take down sites that held copies of it’s flagship show. But now sites such as www.southparkzone.com  are huge hubs of community activity for the show. MTV Networks is perhaps releasing the material as such to enter this community and hopefully ‘improve the conversation‘.

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Elsewhere.  Quick links from across the internet.

• Dozen’s of torrent tracker sites expected to cease as Dutch Web Host  changes it’s policies. [Via NewTeeVee]

• CBS owned Last.fm facilitates new music recommendation engine on  The Pirate Bay. [Via The Register] / [Comments]

• Contrasting opinion from content producers. Film’s director praises the file sharing networks while it’s producer attempts to sue. [Via TechDirt]

This week plans were unveiled for a single distribution platform from BBC Worldwide, ITV and Channel 4. While the project has referenced the Freeview platform, IPTV services and existing online content delivery platforms such as Joost. It is unclear how the platform would interact or not with the BBC’s existing iPlayer, Ch4’s 4OD and the forthcoming ITV online delivery portal. [Via The Register]

The Register and The Guardian originally leaked  the conception of ‘Kangaroo’ in June here The Register/The Guardian.

Commentary on the articles finds users in two camps. While there seems to be an appreciation for the resolution that such delivery of content  is now an important and worthwhile venture, the application of the delivery and  assumed ‘mired’ reliance on both DRM, the Windows Media platform and a ‘pay-for-download’ model is  considered to be outmoded. Especially in the face of the availability of the media online from file sharing sites - who are offering the video for free, at higher quality and with more end user protection in terms of how their details and systems are used.

See commentary here and here. (From The Registers June and November articles respectively)

The Guardian’s Owen Gibson offers a great FAQ (frequently asked questions) on the concept of a multi party platform;

Early commentary on AfterDawn’s announcement surmises the general reception of the news amongst the pro-sharing communities online.

I was going to comment… but thought better of saying what I think of the BBC and the way they totally ignore input from the PEOPLE WHO ARE FORCED TO PAY FOR THEM!!!

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*While Industry Meme attempts to provide an exposition online commentary and reporting around a specific topic or article, occasionally there are  stories and or links that will be shared as just links. Such stories may have a direct relationship to the site’s intentions or may be part of a broader catchment of online developments affecting content and film online.

• Virgin Atlantic purchases online series Kate Modern [Via NewTeeVee]

• EMI reportedly removes it’s funding from the RIAA and IFPI [Via ZeroPaid]

• New Tee Vee propose a new film aesthetic - The “cinema vlog-ité.” [Via NewTeeVee]