Sweeting

• OPINION: Traffic jams on broadband
  By Paul Sweeting - 02/29/2008
  Paul Sweeting is editor of Content Agenda
  FEB. 29 | WHILE POLITICS can make for strange bedfellows, it can also make for exceedingly awkward ones. Case in point: the Motion Picture Assn. of America’s comments to the Federal Communications Commission regarding broadband network practices. More
• OPINION: Blu blues
  By Paul Sweeting - 02/22/2008
  Paul Sweeting is editor of Content Agenda
  FEB. 22 | The format war has been a remarkable story to cover, not least because it’s a story of how individual companies, pursuing narrow, often parochial interests, led to the industry’s adopting what—I’ll now confess—I’ve always believed is the wrong format. More
• OPINION: Political plans
  By Paul Sweeting - 02/15/2008
  Paul Sweeting is editor of Content Agenda
  FEB. 15 | WASHINGTON— The studios’ anti-piracy agenda here has begun to run into a political and regulatory headwind that could jeopardize their hopes of persuading Internet service providers and other network operators to crack down on unchecked file-sharing. More
• OPINION: A third party
  By Paul Sweeting - 02/08/2008
  Paul Sweeting is editor of Content Agenda
  FEB. 8 | It’s too early yet to know the full impact of Warner Bros.’ embrace of Blu-ray Disc on the battle between Blu-ray and HD DVD, but the expectation that it would bring clarity to the high-def DVD business still looks like a long shot. More
• OPINION: No surrender
  By Paul Sweeting - 02/01/2008
  Paul Sweeting is editor of Content Agenda
  FEB. 1 | Since Warner Bros.’ surprise move on the eve of the Consumer Electronics Show to drop HD DVD and embrace Blu-ray exclusively, people anxious for an end to the format uncertainty have been declaring the battle over and all but demanding HD DVD quit the field. More
• OPINION: Web numbers
  By Paul Sweeting - 01/25/2008
  Paul Sweeting is editor of Content Agenda
  JAN. 25 | The 2008 Digital Music Report released this week by the IFPI, the global music industry association, is a truly remarkable document. More
• OPINION: Ripe or rotten?
  By Paul Sweeting - 01/18/2008
  Paul Sweeting is editor of Content Agenda
  JAN. 18 | After pummeling shares of Blockbuster and Netflix on Tuesday following Steve Jobs’ announcement of the iTunes Movie Rental store, investors reversed course on Wednesday, having apparently concluded that the Apple announcement did not mean the end of the DVD rental business as we know it after all. More
• OPINION: The race for fourth
  By Paul Sweeting - 01/11/2008
  Paul Sweeting is editor of Content Agenda
  JAN. 11 | FROM CONTENT AGENDA: In the high-def DVD sweepstakes, Paramount and Universal have lost the race to be third. More
• OPINION: The Content/Technology Agenda for 2008
  By Paul Sweeting - 01/04/2008
  Paul Sweeting is editor of Content Agenda
  JAN. 4 | The International Consumer Electronics Show has become a major meeting place for the technology and entertainment industries, sometimes to cooperate, sometimes to argue, sometimes just to look each other over. More
• OPINION: Piracy billing
  By Paul Sweeting - 12/14/2007
  Paul Sweeting is editor of Content Agenda
  DEC. 14 | WASHINGTON—The most ambitious intellectual property bill since the Digital Millennium Copyright Act got its first hearing before the House Judiciary Committee. More
• OPINION: Seeking copyright parity
  By Paul Sweeting - 12/07/2007
  Paul Sweeting is editor of Content Agenda
  DEC. 7 | The massive intellectual property bill introduced this week by the bi-partisan leadership of the House Judiciary Committee is a marked departure from previous IP legislation. More
• OPINION: Sony plays hardball
  By Paul Sweeting - 11/30/2007
  Paul Sweeting is editor of Content Agenda
  NOV. 30 | Whether out of desperation or strategic planning, Sony finally seems to be taking bold steps to reclaim some of its lost stature. More
• OPINON: Web 2.slow
  By Paul Sweeting - 11/21/2007
  Paul Sweeting is editor of Content Agenda
  
  NOV. 21 | The report released Monday on the limits of Internet capacity, by Mokena, Ill.-based Nemertes Research, should be required reading for anyone involved in developing new, bandwidth-heavy applications for the Web, like video delivery. More
• OPINION: High-def tortoise and the hare
  By Paul Sweeting - 11/16/2007
  Paul Sweeting is editor of Content Agenda
  
  NOV. 16 | While the two warring hardware camps lurch through another inconclusive fourth-quarter, keeping befuddled consumers on the sidelines, high-definition video is starting to find its way onto the Internet as technology providers begin to piece together the necessary infrastructure. More
• OPINION: Contract talks
  By Paul Sweeting - 11/09/2007
  Paul Sweeting is editor of Content Agenda
  
  NOV. 9 | What we’re seeing in the current dispute between writers and producers over residuals for new media is simply the first step in what is likely to be a long and probably painful process by which the media industry comes to grips with the profound changes being worked by digital technology. More
• OPINION: Copy regime
  By Paul Sweeting - 11/02/2007
  Paul Sweeting is editor of Content Agenda
  
  NOV. 2 | A proposal by three studios to establish a managed-copy regime for DVDs could get derailed this week by continued legal skirmishing between the DVD Copy Control Assn. and Kaleidescape Systems, a maker of high-end home media servers. More
• OPINION: Movie downloads 101
  By Paul Sweeting - 10/26/2007
  Paul Sweeting is editor of Content Agenda
  
  OCT. 26 | The five studios behind Movielink sank $148 million and change into the download venture over six years before selling it to Blockbuster earlier this year for a kind word and a handshake. Call it the price of an education. More
• OPINION: Filtering YouTube
  By Paul Sweeting - 10/19/2007
  Paul Sweeting is editor of Content Agenda
  
  OCT. 19 | The digital-rights management wars more or less officially entered a new phase this week with the unveiling of Google’s long-promised content filtering system for YouTube. More
• OPINION: Leveling the scale
  By Paul Sweeting - 10/12/2007
  Paul Sweeting is editor of Content Agenda
  
  OCT. 12 | “BitTorrent” is still a dirty word in Hollywood. But with its announcement this week that it has begun licensing its Digital Network Accelerator (DNA) service to online video providers, BitTorrent Inc. has taken a significant step toward resolving scalability. More
• OPINION: By the numbers
  By Paul Sweeting - 10/05/2007
  Paul Sweeting is editor of Content Agenda
  
  OCT. 5 | The Institute for Policy Innovation, a Texas-based pro-business think tank, released a report this week that estimates total losses to piracy for four “core” U.S. copyright industries at $58 billion per year. More
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