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Best Buy making a second try at digital media by Company Town

About three years ago, Best Buy embarked on a project to start offering movies via digital download, according to two people familiar with the company's plans. It ultimately abandoned the effort, however, apparently deciding the market was too nascent...
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Best Buy launching digital movie service with CinemaNow by Company Town

One of the nation’s biggest sellers of DVDs is making a leap into digital movie downloading. Best Buy Inc. is partnering with online video provider CinemaNow to create a new a movie downloading service that will be integrated into most...
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Lionsgate strikes partnership with online film production company Massify by Company Town

Lionsgate has struck a partnership with an online community of filmmakers in hopes of finding new story ideas. The newly formed Lionsgate Incubator Project will work with Massify -- a kind of Linked-in for the film world, with a network...
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YouTube gets 'Taxi Driver' from Sony's Crackle by Company Town

You lookin' at YouTube? Continuing its slow journey to add premium Hollywood content, YouTube has just posted its second major studio film to the site, the 1976 classic "Taxi Driver." The film, when went on the Google-owned viral video site...
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How moviegoers at different ages use technology by Company Town

Digital media is changing the behavior of all moviegoers, but it's doing so very differently for varying age groups. That's what a group of around 100 online and studio marketing executives, as well as journalists, learned this afternoon at a...
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Studios win injunction against controversial DVD copying software by Company Town

Hollywood has prevailed in its battle to keep consumers from copying DVDs to their computers. Legally, anyway. United States District Court Judge Marilyn Patel today issued a preliminary injunction blocking the sale of RealDVD, a controversial software...
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Pirate Bay buyer raises money, gets Hollywood-style headaches by Company Town

The company that's hoping to turn Pirate Bay into a legal distributor of movies, TV and music says it now has the cash to purchase the online piracy hub later this month, but it already is embroiled in some Hollywood-style...
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Onetime peer-to-peer bete noir Kazaa relaunches as legitimate music site by Company Town

The file-sharing service that once ranked at the top of the Recording Industry Assn. of America's hit list -- and by that, we don't mean popular -- relaunches today as a licensed music service. Kazaa is reincarnated as a subscription...
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Pirate Bay raising the surrender flag to Hollywood by Company Town

The world's most notorious website for illegal music and movie downloading is going legit. The Pirate Bay, a Sweden-based website that's one of the most popular sources for Internet piracy, has agreed to be acquired by Global Gaming Factor, a...
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Supreme Court hits stop button on Hollywood's challenge to cheaper DVRs by Company Town

The high court likes their digital video recorders. The Supreme Court cleared the way for Cablevision Systems Corp., a New York-based cable operator with more than 3 million subscribers, to deploy so-called remote storage DVRs. Unlike current DVRs, which...
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Deadline Hollywood Daily sold for several million dollars; LA Weekly to hire new showbiz blogger by Company Town

In March 2006, Nikki Finke started Deadline Hollywood Daily as an outlet for scoops that couldn't wait for her column in LA Weekly. She initially earned nothing extra for the blog. Today she has sold the site, which she owns...
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Report: YouTube losing less money than thought, happy Hollywood doesn't know it by Company Town

In the entertainment business, it's customary practice to publicly boast that almost every new movie and TV show is a hit. If a new report from IT consulting firm RampRate (not your usual savvy analysts of showbiz, but bear with...
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After many Hollywood-backed flops, who's left in Web video? by Company Town

In the past two years, five separate online video ventures backed by big media money have gone out of business: NBC's DotComedy, HBO and AOL's This Just In, Turner's SuperDeluxe, ABC-Disney Television's Stage 9 Digital, and the UTA-funded...
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Online video advertising model ... broken already by Company Town

You don't have to be an industry insider to understand that the market for professionally produced Web videos isn't exactly thriving. The list of digital video divisions and start-ups founded with Hollywood money in the last few years now resembles...
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Former AOL chief to join News Corp. by Company Town

Former America Online Chief Executive Jonathan Miller is expected to join News Corp. in the newly-created position overseeing digital strategy, according to a person familiar with the situation. Miller is a well known figure in digital media, whose name...
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