The Pirate Bay – the worlds best known file sharing site has had four of its owners jailed for a year each today.
A Swedish court jailed the four men, Frederik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Carl Lundstrom and Peter Sunde in a landmark case after they were found guilty of breaking copyright law.
The Pirate Bay is [...]

Anyone who has not already seen or heard the Susan Boyle video, here it is.
Featured on UK talent show ‘Britains got talent’ the singer (Susan Boyle) enters stage to howls of laughter and derision when she says that she wants to be a famous singing star.
However the laughter stopped when she began singing with an [...]

Youtube has announced that it will become a portal for watching full length movies and TV shows in a bid to compete with its more attractive competitor Hulu. Unfortunately for now they will only be watchable for US residents.

To further distance itself from being just a funny videos website and becoming more premium content based, [...]

Streaming Internet TV streams are increasingly popular. According to Nielsen’s Online report for March released on Monday. Internet video watching by US residents showed a 1.9% growth in viewer numbers.

Total streams watched grew by 8.7% and time watching a stream per viewer rose by 12.6% compared to February.
YouTube is still the daddy of video sites [...]

We all know that internet TV is the hot ticket right now and that traditional TV is well, just Erm.. boring. But in a new report, Microsoft are claiming that within 4 years traditional TV could be dead and buried.
Apparently the TV sitting in your front room will soon be obsolete, and will be replaced [...]

After a flurry of activity, Youtube is up to some more. It is now in talks with Sony Pictures to acquire licensing rights to show movies such as box office hit ‘SpiderMan’.
This comes just days after Disney announced it had licensed streaming content to the video giant. These will however just be in the form [...]

In a bid to get more advertising revenue, YouTube is having a makeover. The redesign is a bid to become a more attractive place for content owners to show their streams – case in point being Disney who just signed up to a deal with Youtube.
See an example of the new style Youtube
So why the [...]

Whilst negotiations are still underway between Disney and Hulu ongoing (Hulu and Disney deal all but done). And the companies sweat over the fine print. Rumours are rife about Hulu running low on cash funds and needing the deal more than Disney.
Hulu which started just over a year ago had $100M of finance put into [...]