Archive for the 'Policy Change' Category

MTV Networks to put entire South Park Catalogue online in 2008

Sunday, December 2nd, 2007

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 […]

Elsewhere: 2nd December 2007

Sunday, December 2nd, 2007

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 […]

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 […]