Google says that this will allow consumers to more readily find legitimate sources of content such as Hulu and Spotify, but it's hard not to see the move as one intended to appease studios, content producers and government officials that routinely threaten to hammer companies like Google with lawsuits and restrictive legislation.
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It's nice to work in one window while viewing content or chatting in another, but since everything feels shrunken on this giant screen, the setup isn't perfect.
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There are wild rumors, and there are interesting rumors, but here's a doozy for ya: Xbox Live could soon start vending HD movie content, according to one freshly minted Wordpress blog (take that for what it's worth).
When a publisher uploads its content on to one of the company's computers, it sets the price and defines, for example, whether the product can also be saved or printed by any user who wants to buy the right to look at it.
Russia is one of the biggest go-to spots for infringed U.S. content.
One of the big questions as it's started to roll out packages of streaming content is how customers will react and while it's still not giving any viewership stats, Netflix did provide some new details.
The move, one of the first major steps to monetize YouTube's millions of hours of video content, allows any publisher in the network to have videos automatically placed on his or her site based on the site's text content.
The blogs had a field day on Monday with the question of whether Google's plan to stash its content close to the telecommunications networks violates its support for one of theological underpinnings of the Internet age, namely net neutrality.
At the time no one seemed to notice--or more to the point, care--that Excite's content was at best mediocre and that At Home's touted broadband delivery would require billions in infrastructure investment.
In fact, he's so set on laboring over his content-to-come, he only has one new scripted offering to share this fall: Life on Mars, a crime drama about a cop who wakes up some 30 years in the past.
So the government's prospects for a whole flotilla of major bills now depends on the Lib Dem whips' ability to re-assert party discipline - and some senior figures seem quite content at what one called "last night's controlled detonation".
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