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Tivo and Netflix have joined forces in another stab at keeping the Apple TV and iTunes out of the digital den.

The companies will give subscribers to both services the chance to stream thousands of movies and TV episodes from Netflix directly to the TV using TiVo Series3, TiVo HD, and HD XL digital video recorders.

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Adobe is likely in hot water this weekend, with news that a security hole in Flash means users can get free access to record and copy video and movies made available using the software.

Amazon.com’s online movie service is apparently affected, meaning users can easily grab a copy of films - even those theoretically protected against such use.

Apparently, the flaw lies in the Flash video servers. “The software doesn’t encrypt online content, but only orders sent to a video player such as start and stop play. To boost download speeds, Adobe dropped a stringent security feature that protects the connection between the Adobe software and its players,” Reuters explains.

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“The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) is on a fast-track process as rich nations hope to wrap it up by the end of the year. Unfortunately for everyone who cares about the outcome, it’s midway through September, and no draft text has yet emerged,” Ars Technica reports.

“The secrecy and the delay have inspired many conspiracy theories, none helped by leaked sets of corporate “wish lists” and public comments making outrageous demands.”

Leaked documents suggest the treaty could require Internet service providers to monitor all consumers’ Internet communications, interfere with fair use of copyrighted materials, and criminalize peer-to-peer electronic file sharing.
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20th Century Fox has begun selling DVD’s equipped with a technology called Digital Copy for iTunes in the UK.

Introduced in January 2008 at an Apple trade event and until now only available on some titles sold in the USA, the first such title being, ‘Family Guy Presents: Blue Harvest’.

What the move means is UK and US customers who purchase a DVD also get an additional Digital Copy of the movie which can be popped inside iTunes, and then played back on the computer or Apple’s range of digital devices.

The first film including the feature to reach the US is the ‘What Happens in Vegas’, movie starring Cameron Diaz and Ashton Kutcher. However, each DVD will only transfer its iTunes Digital Copy to one iTunes library.

“One of the most requested features DVD buyers have been asking for is the ability to get the movies they bought into their iTunes library,” said Jim Gianopulos, chairman and chief executive officer of Fox Filmed Entertainment.
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So pleased there’s visionaries on our planet - in this video you’ll meet one
Brewster Kahle, who is attempting to build this vast digital library containing every book ever published, every movie ever released, all the strata of web history …and all for free and public use.

Thanks to Gerd Leonhard and Ted.com

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Giant UK high street retailer, Tesco, has its sights on the online media market, with its Tesco Digital arm in talks with the BBC, ITV and Fremantle Media to offer TV shows and films through its store.

The company hopes to rival iTunes with its service, which it hopes to launch before Christmas.

Content providers are understood to be interested in the plan, partially because Tesco is such a major UK retailer with a proven ability to sell that it could have a huge impact on the emerging online video market.
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Walt Disney CEO Bob Iger today called on ISPs to ban people who illegally download content.

Disney owns US network ABC and produces a range of hit shows including Desperate Housewives and Lost. Iger was speaking in London.

Iger was referring to the recently-announced deal under which six of the UK’s biggest ISPs will begin sending warning letters to customers that copyright bodies claim have downloaded content.
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Twentieth Century Fox has released a batch of new DVDs equipped with the facility - Digital Copy - to copy the movies they contain directly into iTunes, for use with an Apple TV, iPhone or iPod.

The movie studio has introduced 20 titles equipped with the format, including Die Hard, Napoleon Dynamite and a other favourites, releasing the new batch in the US.
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Universal Music UK has drawn yet another string to its online services bow, following the launch of rare music service, LostTunes with an all-new soundtracks download store, MusicFrom.

The new store, which offers rare and well-known film soundtracks from the label’s catalogue, launches with 200 titles. With a second stab at the collector’s market, many of the soundtracks have never been made available digitally before.
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HMV has developed a new tool for iTunes users that’s designed to help build music and film collections using HMV’s new social discovery site getcloser.com.
 
The ‘gap analyser’ tool lets users import their iTunes data in order to be given a host of music and film recommendation designed to fill the gaps in their collection. The tool uses HMV’s exhaustive archive of music and film releases to highlight gaps.
 
Gideon Lask, eCommerce Director for HMV said, “There has been a dramatic shift in the way in which people buy, store and play music and film meaning people’s collections are very broad due to the ability to have instant access to a variety of genres. However, there is a lack of access to the depth, detail and background knowledge needed for people to expand their collections in the way they would like to.”
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