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It looks like Steve Jobs can't boss everyone around. According to Think Secret, Apple will announce in early August a new service through its iTunes store, movie rentals. Apple has reportedly been in negotiations with multiple studios for months to provide movie downloads, but if this news is true, Jobs has been bested by Hollywood. Think Secret said Apple will...

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There is nothing clear about the future of full-length motion picture distribution on the Internet. The players include BitTorrent, Guba, Cinemanow, MovieLink, Vongo and Apple's iTunes store is looming. The studios are signing non-exclusive distribution deals with just about everyone, not wanting to be locked into one option until a clear winner steps forward. MovieLink has announced a move which...

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Hilary Rosen may be the Johnny Damon of the music world. Damon, formerly the center fielder for the Boston Red Sox took the money and ran to the arch-rival New York Yankees, a move met with hatred in Boston and skepticism in New York. Rosen went from being chief of the Recording Industry Association of America, to consulting for XM...

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XM radio has posted an open letter stating its case in its upcoming legal battle with the Recording Industry Association of America to artists, songwriters and musicians. Arstechnica has a good post describing XM's position, which is quite logical and correct in my opinion. Satellite radio pays millions in royalties to the music industry, and if anything helps to promote...

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With Scoble leaving, Gates turning his attention to his foundation, Vista dragging its way to market and the Xbox 360 trailing the PS2 in sales you'd think Microsoft would take a step back, collect itself and try to get its house in order. According to this story from Reuters, it'll do nothing of the sort. Citing sources "familiar with the...

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When Bill Gates took the stage for a keynote speech on the future of Microsoft and the upcoming release of Vista little did he know that men in hazmat suits were lying in wait. Defectivebydesign.org is a group of color-coded anti-DRM crusaders, and they made their presence known in Seattle with a rip-roaring good time of a protest. This grass-roots...

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In a move that should shock absolutely no one, the Recording Industry Association of America has filed a lawsuit against XM radio. The issue: XM's new breed of satellite radio receiver/mp3 player, the Pioneer Inno and Samsung Helix. When the first reviews of the Pioneer Inno hit the blogosphere I wondered what concessions XM would have to make to the...

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Last week when I was flipping through the channel guide on my DirecTV/TiVo receiver I came across an unusual message, it read "Recording of this program is not allowed by copyright." This was for the letterbox version of the movie "Jarhead," other pay-per-view versions of the movie were recordable. This is outrageous as far as I'm concerned. The integrated DirecTV...

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The long-anticipated (at least by me) Sirius S50 Satellite Radio finally hit the shelves a week or so ago. It took some effort to locate an available unit in New York, but I finally found one at the Best Buy on 44th Street. The S50 is a combination satellite radio/mp3 player. It promised portability, with a catch. The mp3 player...

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