For several years consumers have enjoyed streaming premium content services like Hulu, Amazon Prime, Netflix, and others.

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The Original Content Wars Have Begun, But They’re Bigger Than Hulu Vs. Netflix

I interview entertainment and new media attorney Gordon Firemark for a guide on two controversial bills in Congress and the top online video crisis of 2012 – the Protect IP Act (PIPA) and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), which are threating to censor our free expression and remove our ability to do business with online video. My video interview with Gordon Firemark on SOPA and PIPA You can just watch my video interview with attorney Gordon Firemark below, or go right to the article and accompanying videos further below. Click here to watch the video.

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SOPA And PIPA May Cripple The Web Video Ecosystem, Unless We Fight It

Zediva had an interesting business model, buy a bunch of DVD players and get a bunch of DVDs for rental.

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Virtual DVD Rental Service Zediva Shut Down Permanently

One of the biggest stories of 2011 is what the future of television will look like as service providers, consumer electronics manufacturers and content aggregators all jockey for the prime position in your living room.

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ivi TV Continues Its Fight For The Future Of Internet TV

One of the headaches that YouTube has been having is keeping music copyright holders happy when someone posts a video of a song cover or has a song playing in the background.  It must seem like a music free-for-all for those who created songs and are seeing others profit from them.  Well, just last week, YouTube’s owners, Google, just bought RightsFlow, a company that deals with specific licensing rights to over 30 million songs .  This will allow YouTube to correctly identify musicians who deserve compensation for their works being used on the site.

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YouTube Acquires RightsFlow – Easy Music Licensing For Video Creators

After talking to ShoeMoney at BlueGlass TPA , I’ve decided to give Facebook Comments for WordPress a run on SEJ for a couple of weeks to see how it works. The Facebook Comments should eliminate a lot of comment spam issues (this is an 8 year old blog so we get A LOT) and I hear that the virality of the commenting can generate a lot of Facebook traffic.

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Testing Facebook Comments for WordPress

Who knew that it was this easy to attack your enemies on YouTube? A prankster calling himself iLCreation has brought mayhem to YouTube today by successfully getting music videos for mega-stars like Justin Bieber, Lady Gaga, & Rihanna pulled from the site

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Justin Bieber & Lady Gaga Videos Pulled From YouTube By Simple Copyright Claim

Well, well, well… this is going to get pretty interesting pretty quickly. One of the three television networks behind Hulu, Fox, has decided to end next-day access to episodes of their programs on Hulu and on the company’s website.

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Fox To Enforce 8-Day Waiting Period For New Episodes On Hulu

The time is now to counter the troubling proliferation of socially irresponsible video online, and that starts with each of us. That’s why I’ve enlisted the help a couple of ethics and legal experts to help me with putting together what I believe is the first-ever, “Pledge for Online Video Responsibility,” which I hope can help both online video professionals and enthusiasts be more mindful and considerate of others.

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A Pledge For Online Video Responsibility – A Video Code Of Ethics

Holy end-around Batman! The UK appears to be on the verge of giving the OK for people to ignore the MPAA and RIAA and allow consumers to begin ripping their CDs and DVDs for personal, digital use. The recommendations also include extending the copyright exemption to parody use

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UK To Extend Copyright Exemption To Parody & Personal Digital Use Copies