Peter Chernin, CEO of Fox and COO of News Corp. (Fox’s parent), preached to an audience of techies at Yawndex on Tuesday. He said that Big Media and Big Tech must work together to protect content. To paraphrase:

Big Tech must stop the production of general purpose computers, and instead start making consumer-proof entertainment purchasing devices. […]

Webcaster Alliance recently published a three-part series, “American Injustice: HR 5469″, that documents the story of the Small Webcasters Settlement Act (SWSA). There are serveral audio interviews, some of which are very revealing in terms of how the RIAA tried to divide and conquer the webcasting community. | “American Injustice: HR 5469″ | The Register […]

In another My First MPEG-4 Article, the German site 99mac interviews 3ivx about their “miracle” 3ivx codec. The interviewer (conducting the interview via email, apparently) quotes Happy Machines’ CEO, Jan Devos, verbatim.

Happy Machines is a company that was formed in July 2000 as the official entity for developing and marketing the 3ivx codec, the goal […]