TiVo has announced its first major addition to its service with its free Movie of the Week download in collaboration with BlockBuster.

The Batman sequel The Dark Night was a smash hit at the box office, with $400 million in U.S. ticket sales in its first 18 days after release and more than $1 billion in sales globally so far. But the title achieved another significant milestone: It amassed over one million illegal downloads on BitTorrent in less than seven days.

2007 person-to-person music downloads were worth a staggering $69 billion , and movie/television piracy continues to grow, says a new study. And all that free promotion didn't cost them a penny. At least, that's how Techdirt sees it . And I agree. Instead of embracing what might be the largest free marketing giveaway in the history of the world, the music labels instead sue their customers. ...

SOME of the biggest names in the film industry are taking legal action against WA-based internet service provider iiNet in a bid to stop illicit movie downloads.

For years the music industry has struggled with the dilemma of downloads - the free sharing of music through the internet.

"Twilight," the vampire movie based on a series of best-selling books, opens at midnight Thursday, and local theaters are bracing for a crush of teenage girls — some with their mothers in tow. Many have already bought their tickets.

The team behind Monty Python has decided to fight back against fans who have uploaded low quality dubs of their material.

At one point, it looked as though democracy in China would be declared before GN'R's Chinese Democracy was released to the world.

Back when I was in college -- way back in early 1997, I'm afraid -- I wrote a well-reasoned letter to the online arm of Ultra Game Players magazine in defense of Nintendo, whose star was starting to take on a distinct tinge of tarnish among the nascent online hardcore gaming fanbase. The N64's strong launch had deteriorated into the likes of Yoshi's Story , with little but Star Fox ...

Executives from several of Australia's largest internet service providers have over the past few months expressed their desire to become media companies in their own right.