Entries tagged with “movies” from O'Reilly Digital Media Blog

Newsweek reports that Netflix and TiVO are looking at a deal to allow users to download movies to their TiVOs over the net. I'm sure MPAA will have something to say about this. If ti

Special News Bulletin: LOTR wins unprecedented twelfth Oscar

Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King shows how badly the Matrix trilogy sucked

Who would win if Spider-Man fought Yoda?

The Motion Picture Association of America has sent letters to the nation's ISPs and universities, according to a c|net report, warning them that users are trading movies over Gnutella. Since Gnutella is a decentralized network, it's obviously much more difficult to legally stop the system, as is happening with Napster, so ISPs are being conscripted into stopping the video trade. It's not clear from c|net whether the MPAA is making any threats; the MPAA spokesman says they are "educating the population."