Recent comparisons to the early experience of using an ATM seem to offer quite a bit of potential for describing how we will be buying and watching movies and television shows in the near future.
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SOPA: Just Say NOPA
Whatever you’ve been doing on the internet in the last few weeks, chances are you ran across something about SOPA. And for good reason—SOPA might just be the most dangerous internet legislation the US government has ever considered.
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Cloudy with a Chance of Media
Music in the cloud services, such as Apple's iCloud, are a specific snapshot of music as a cultural commodity, one that sees music as indelibly networked to certain providers and technologies.
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You Can Patent That?
If you've ever clicked once to buy, you've taken part in an activity that has implications across the North American technology sectors for how consumers interact with the books, music, and movies they love on their digital devices.
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The Rise and Fall of @Sutterink: Showrunners [Off] Twitter III
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While it was perhaps inevitable that Sutter’s lack of a filter would result in his Twitter account becoming a liability, the rise and fall of “@sutterink” has more to do with public perceptions of Twitter than with his actual commentary.
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Great Barbeque, Gigabits, and Google
After sifting though around 1,100 applications and high profile pleas, Google recently picked a site for its 1 Gbps fiber network. And according to Google, Kansas City Kansas beats. . . well, everywhere. Why KCK? And what does this mean for the rest of us?
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April Fools’ Day and the Ghosts of Media Past
On April 1, 2011, several websites joked around with media history.
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Australian “Free” TV
Australia's digital channels pose a threat to the free-to-air channels, so how do the latter fight back?
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What We Talk About When We Talk About Net Neutrality
Despite its reputation as a wonky and bewildering issue, net neutrality actually boils down to a pretty simple principle of openness and nondiscrimination. It’s important to point out, then, that a lot of those who are talking about “net neutrality” these days aren’t actually talking about this.
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The ACTA Retreat: Their Ignorance, And Ours
The ACTA retreat is indicative of a larger crisis in how media policy works today. Specifically: we have no idea how media policy works today.
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What Do You Think? The Chilean Mine Rescue
The rescue of a group of Chilean miners this week has become a media phenomenon. We want your opinion on it all.
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Winning Some Battles in the Copyfight
Some good news came from the battlefield that is media and technology policy recently: some important fair use rulings that help to hold off the ever expanding clutches of copyright.
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Misreading pleasure: from pro-social soaps to ICT4D
The information and communication technologies for development (ITC4D) initiative can and should be more than developmentalism. How can we think more broadly about the pleasures of engaging with emerging media?
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DVR vs. Twitter
Is the virtual watercooler making timeshifting impossible? Can you have your DVR and Twitter too?
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Record Store Day, or Vinyl Record Day?
Today is Record Store Day, a music industry event taking place at hundreds of independent record shops internationally. But is this "holiday," intended to bolster record retailers, really better seen as an assertion of vinyl's renewed importance in the industry?
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