DCD Business Report articles from November 2004

DCD Business Report archives from November 2004

The Case For Conflicting Rights.(movie file sharing and copyright infringement)
November 10, 2004... The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) is following the lead of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) with the announcement last week that on Nov. 16, it will begin a campaign of civil copyright infringement lawsuits...

Hybrid DualDiscs To Make Market Debut.
November 10, 2004... A consortium of major and independent record labels, including EMI Music, Sony BMG Music Entertainment, Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group, and 5.1 Entertainment Group/Silverline Records, plans to introduce more than 50 DualDisc title...

Sony BMG, Grokster To Partner On Song Download Service.(Brief Article)
November 10, 2004... Industry buzz has it that one of the music industry's major labels, Sony BMG, plans to partner with peer-to-peer company, Grokster, on a new online venture called Mashboxx. At one time, the two companies had been at odds with each other as...

Universal Music Pioneers Instant Interactive Video.
November 10, 2004... U.K.-based Universal Music is testing a new interactive video service on its Web site to entice music fans to do more than just listen to and watch their favorite musicians. Geared toward a demographic audience aged 14 to 20 years, the new...

Data Filter.
November 10, 2004... What's Happening: The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has announced the first digital singles to have sold enough downloads to qualify for "gold" and "platinum" sales status. For CD titles, gold status is equivalent to...

20 Top-Selling DVD Video Titles (Week ending 10/31/04).
November 10, 2004... 20 Top-Selling DVD Video Titles (Week ending 10/31/04) This Title Label Last Weeks Week Week On 1 DAWN OF THE DEAD, Unrated Universal...

Report Finds P2P Internet Traffic Growth Continues.(peer-to-peer filesharing traffic)
November 10, 2004... Recent industry reports have suggested that peer-to-peer (P2P) filesharing traffic has decreased significantly due to legal threats from large industry interests and associations such as the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). In...

Philips Delivers New DVD Watermarking Product.(Digital Video Disks)
November 10, 2004... Royal Philips Electronics, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, has developed a new easy-to-apply anti-piracy technology that embeds a unique "watermark" to video content contained on recordable DVDs. Applied during the disc duplicating process, the...

U2 Album Hits P2P Networks Before Official Release.(peer-to-peer)(Brief Article)
November 10, 2004... Late-breaking news reports say that pirated versions of U2's new album "How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb" have emerged on Internet file-sharing networks two weeks before the album was scheduled to go on sale on Nov. 22. According to reports, U2...

Does New Copyright Law Uphold or Unravel An American Tradition?
November 24, 2004... Publishing vs. Artistry As this issue of DCD Business Report went to press, a scaled-back version of the Intellectual Property Act (H.R. 2391) passed the U.S. Senate. H.R. 2391, an "omnibus" bill, is a collection of several bills dealing...

Opportunities Grow in the Portable Music Player Market.(Company Profile)
November 24, 2004... Spurred on by smaller and smaller storage devices, lower costs, particularly in the flash memory market, and increasing availability of online music services, portable music player sales are expected to continue to grow through 2008 to $58...

Movie Gallery To Rival Blockbuster In Buyout Bid.(Brief Article)
November 24, 2004... In related news, another high-impact media market area, DVD video rentals, saw action last week as video rental chain Movie Gallery submitted a bid to rival Blockbuster's initial offer for Hollywood Entertainment Corp., which owns the Hollywood...

Chuckwalla: Taking DAM Beyond The Enterprise.(Digital Asset Management)
November 24, 2004... Digital Asset Management (DAM) has become one of the digital content delivery industry's most familiar buzz phrases. Coming out of the enterprise database management space, Santa Clara, Calif.-based Chuckwalla, Inc. is developing DAM technology...

Data Filter.(includes multiple articles)
November 24, 2004... What's Happening: SBC Communications Inc., a DSL provider, and Yahoo! Inc. are extending their alliance, initiated in 2001, to expand the SBC Yahoo! service beyond PC application to include home television and audio systems, Cingular wireless...

Report Predicts Soft Holiday Consumer Electronics Sales.
November 24, 2004... An annual survey of U.S. consumers indicates that the surge in demand for home-based consumer electronics is cresting. After a small peak in demand in 2003, consumers interviewed by Ipsos-Insight, a global survey-based marketing research firm,...

MPAA Files First Wave Of Lawsuits, RIAA Continues Its Own.
November 24, 2004... The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) last week filed its first wave of civil lawsuits targeting online traders of illegally copied films. The suits were filed in courts throughout the United States in areas such as New York and...

Upping the Storage Ante.
November 24, 2004... The continuing demand for better and faster memory access and higher capacities has storage technology providers in a constant state of upgrade. For database storage of rich media assets, that demand is especially important as more companies...