A court in Missouri has given a two year federal prison sentence to a guy who took a camcorder into a theater and pirated “The Dark Knight” by selling counterfeit DVDs. Despite that and despite the court ruling last year that supposedly was going to shut down sites like Pirate Bay, an online search shows [...]
You can’t make this stuff up.
CBS says television advertising is returning. The Wall Street Journal says all the major networks have reported a turnaround, and though other divisions of the conglomerates are lagging, things are getting better – just in time for this year’s negotiations.
Interesting article on the LA Times “Company Town” blog, about an effects house whose ability to recreate distant locations is said to make it economic to maintain production in Los Angeles.
In what may rank as the no-brainer research result of the year, Nielsen’s formidable surveying power has discovered that users do not want to pay for web content. A new Nielsen survey says 79% of users would no longer access a Web site that charges them. The finding also assumes that consumers can find the [...]
Dismaying, to say the least. Videogames, which had seemed a new source of union employment unaffected by the recession, has now apparently succumbed to the economic forces that have devastated the industry. Year over year sales 2009 vs. 2008 were down 9%, despite a good Christmas season. Now there’s January 2010 vs. January 2009. Down [...]
