By Brandon Russell |
Google this week was victorious in a huge legal battle with Viacom over unauthorized content, including The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, being posted to YouTube by users. A federal judge in New York said YouTube had not violated any copyrights, citing a safe-harbor provision…
By Adriana Lee |
CBS just can’t seem to resist messing with its tech journalists. Earlier this month, when CNET chose Dish Network’s new Hopper with Sling for its Best of CES awards, the broadcasting powerhouse forced the editors to pull their selection due to corporate’s lawsuit with the…
By Todd Haselton |
Barnes & Noble on Tuesday announced that it will begin to provide the option to buy and rent movies later this fall. The company has secured partnerships with all of the major players in the video content industry, including HBO, Sony Picutres, Starz, Walt Disney…
By Sean P. Aune |
A new rumor has surfaced suggesting that Apple may be talking with premium cable channel EPIX about a potential deal to bring content to the long rumored Apple television set. Citing “two people with knowledge of the negotiations,” Reuters reported today that Apple has been…
By Sean P. Aune |
Amazon announced this morning that it has added content from the Viacom family of networks to its growing Amazon Prime Instant Video service. Rumors began circulating yesterday that an announcement was imminent from the two companies, and this morning they made it official. Amazon Prime…
By Emily Price |
Time Warner Cable announced yesterday that it will be financing Slingboxes for some of its customers. Time Warner Cable subscribers who currently use the company’s $99-month wideband Internet service can receive a rebate for the full $300 cost of a Slingbox. Rebates are expected to…
By Adriana Lee |
On Tuesday, AntiSec, the hacker cooperative of Anonymous and former LulzSec members, took credit for attacking Universal and Viacom, releasing personal data, such as passwords from the Universal Music Website, and confidential Viacom information. This got me thinking — is there any real way for…
By Jack McGrath |
Today was certainly a hectic day in the world of technology to say the least. We’ve compiled a list of TechnoBuffalo’s top headlines for today to help you make sense of it all. 1. “The Daily Show” and “The Colbert Report” Return to Hulu After being…
By Tom Moccia |
Last month, Viacom quietly announced it was looking to sell one of their struggling divisions, Harmonix Music Systems, the makers of the popular Rock Band video game series. Surprisingly, this division has been hemorrhaging for quite some time now, and I have to wonder what…
By Winston Sih |
Viacom plans to appeal the decision that ended their lawsuit against YouTube and Google earlier this year comes very expected to everyone. Viacom has submitted to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York paperwork on Wednesday, stating their intention to dispute…
By Sean P. Aune |
The Viacom lawsuit against Google/YouTube took so many odd turns this week that I felt like I was watching the 1970′s sitcom Soap. Each episode started off with a recap of the previous one, and said, “Confused? You won’t be after this episode of Soap!”,…
By Sean P. Aune |
It seems that Comedy Central, a company that has made a tremendous amount of money by building two shows around the concept of “fair use”, isn’t going to be quite as forgiving when bloggers turn the tables on them. Hulu recently announced that both The…
