Comcast cable's boneheaded campaign to choke off bandwidth for file-sharers has made a powerful enemy: FCC chairman Kevin Martin. The FCC chief said Friday that Comcast must stop singling out users of the BitTorrent file-sharing application, and reveal to customers what sort of "traffic shaping" activities it was employing. At this year's … [Read more...]
‘Daily Show,’ ‘Colbert’ report to Hulu
"The Daily Show," the "most trusted name in fake news," is just in to Hulu. Jon Stewart's long-running Comedy Central spoof on politics and current events joined the NBC Universal-News Corp. streaming video site today, with last night's show front and center. Complete episodes available for online viewing today on Hulu date back a month, to … [Read more...]
‘South Park’ video streaming all its junk
"South Park" dwellers don't have to go dumpster diving for streaming videos as of right now. southparkstudios.com has launched with full-length episodes and clips from the cranky ani show's 12 seasons. "South Park" creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone said of their new home: "We got really sick of having to download our own show illegally all … [Read more...]
ESPN laterals HD games to Xbox Marketplace
ESPN has checked into the game in the Xbox 360 Live Marketplace. As of this morning, the Worldwide Leader was offering five recent college football games for download, all of them pretty good: Auburn vs. LSU, South Florida vs. UConn and some Pac 10 action. The Marketplace promises to upload one or two ESPN/ABC college games a week, within 48 … [Read more...]
Cuban wired for cabler’s fight over P2P blocks
Comcast is getting some unlikely support as it feels the heat over its alleged sabotage of P2P file-sharing activities. "Hang in there, Comcast," writes Mark Cuban. "The last thing I want slowing my internet service down are P2P freeloaders," says free-thinker Cuban -- yes, the media and sports zillionaire who financed Grokster's defense in a … [Read more...]
