Archive for the 'Editorial' Category

Changes to Industry Meme dot com

Tuesday, February 5th, 2008

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 […]

French proposal for a three strike policy on illegal file sharers

Sunday, December 2nd, 2007

Last week the Financial Times reported on a new french proposal in which internet Service providers would make available details of users sharing and downloading illegal movies and films on their internet connection. Effectively, frequent and high bandwidth users taking part in such file sharing as deemed illegal would face an initial warning, a further […]

Torrent site traffic - Mininova

Wednesday, November 14th, 2007

TorrentFreak [link] is reporting that torrent tracking site Mininova entered the top 50 most visited sites online yesterday. Alexa (an online tool that analyses and produces reports on global web traffic). Currently the site ranks at 68;

While Alexa’s ranking system is often under discussion as to it’s validity, confirmation of the scale of torrent downloads […]

What is Industry Meme?

Monday, November 5th, 2007

The Meme.
Within the film industry it is common for film professionals to refer to it as the ‘Industry‘, likewise in other industries.
The aim to posit a cultural opinion that is transmittable is surmised by the ‘Meme‘ of the site’s title. Meme being defined as;
“a unit of cultural transmission, or a unit of imitation”
“Examples of […]

Welcome to Industry Meme

Monday, November 5th, 2007

Industry Meme is a blog born out of many meetings and conversations offline within the UK film industry; more specifically it is a place that seeks to follow online discussion concerning our industry and engage members of the industry, who have traditionally remained offline, with the global conversation.
Improving that conversation.
As UK or indeed any […]