Joost just soft-launched its long-awaited in-browser version. It’s throwing several errors (see the red bar in the screen grab) and crashed my browser eight times in a row but, with…

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The BBC has refuted a report it is to abandon the Kontiki content delivery product that powers its iPlayer desktop application. C21 yesterday claimed: “The BBC iPlayer will cease using…

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- Virgin 50 Mbps: Nine million VMED customers will have access to 50 Mbps cable this year, the company said, considering best methods for rollout: “Unlike big routed networks, we…

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In a further sign of increasing music industry aggression on the piracy issue, the four major labels - martialled by the Irish Recorded Music Association - are suing Ireland’s largest…

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It seems Babelgum is enjoying the search for quality content so much, it’s becoming a content company. The heavily-financed P2P platform is creating a 10 million euro (£7.64 million) fund…

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Microsoft-backed live P2P TV platform Livestation is due to complete a technical trial phase in “the next few weeks” - but is under no illusions as to its chances of…

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The time is up for internet service providers. The government is giving ISPs an April 2009 deadline to put processes in place to halt digital piracy or face legal sanctions,…

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- BBC P2P: A BBC R&D team is working with broadcasters, universities and developers across Europe on P2P Next, a continent-wide initiative to build a legal, cross-platform P2P system based…

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Is Babelgum’s bubblegum bursting? Three months after CTO Mallku Caballero quit the well-funded Dublin-based P2P TV startup, now chief technical architect Gianni Scenini tells us he has also gone. Caballero…

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ISPs have hit back at mounting criticism—and pending regulatory action—that they are not doing enough to halt digital piracy. After months of vociferous complaints from music and film companies and…

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Swedish prosecutors have filed charges against Carl Lundstrom, Peter Sunde, Frederik Neij and Gottfrid Svartholm Warg - the brains behind torrent tracker The Pirate Bay - as expected, accusing the…

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In recent weeks, the music business, software publishers and U2’s manager have supported French moves to make ISPs monitor and kick off customers engaging in illegal P2P - but Telefonica…

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Joost’s CTO Dirk-Willem van Gulik (pictured) will join the BBC next month to become chief technical architect. Joost accordingly is hiring Matt Zelesko as SVP of engineering. Van Gulik will…

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Swedish prosecutors are expected to charge the operators of Swedish file sharing service The Pirate Bay with “conspiracy to breach copyrights,” later this month according to the Wall Street Journal.…

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Well-financed P2P TV platform Babelgum is seeking a new chief technology officer after the departure of its second senior member in two months.  We have confirmed with Babelgum in Milan…

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VeriSign (NSDQ: VRSN) announced in November that it planned to shed non-core assets, including communications, billing and commerce, though the fate of its CDN business remained unclear at the time.…

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Ireland-based, Italian-funded P2P TV platform Babelgum is pressing on with cosying up to independent movie producers. After September’s launch with Spike Lee of its own film festival for indies, it’s…

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Skinkers, which makes branded desktop news readers for syndicated content and has a P2P TV offering, has received $16 million (£8 million) in second-round funding from Acacia Capital, Spark Ventures…

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British and Dutch police have apparently shut down a private Bit Torrent tracker the music industry says was the world’s biggest online network of illegal pre-release albums. Membership of OiNK…

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Joost will eventually reach the living room, isn’t planning a mobile launch but can expect more attention from one of its founding fathers. In Cannes for the Mipcom TV programming…

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Joost plans to begin testing add test live TV shows alongside its on-demand content in the first quarter of 2008. In an interview with paidContent:UK in Cannes, content strategy and…

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Some major executive turnover is afoot at Ireland-based, Italian-backed online video startup Babelgum: Erik Lumer, one of the co-founders of the startup, has left the company to become the CEO…

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The music industry has taken legal action to shut down seven German servers powering the eDonkey P2P file-sharing network. In a rather triumphalist emailed press release, the London-based International Federation…

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Some industry types are starting to use military lexicon to describe what they see as the looming possibility internet service providers will force broadcasters to cough up cash for online…

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- AOL (NYSE: TWX) UK: The portal business has promoted interactive marketing VP Michael Steckler to the managing director position - and it will be hoping to bring stability to…

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