January 8, 2007
Volume 16, Issue 3
INTENT MediaWorks Appoints Craig Yano
DCIA Member INTENT MediaWorks, a leading provider of technology for the distribution of licensed digital media content and advertising via the Internet, has appointed Craig Yano as Vice President of Sales and Business Development.
INTENT’s pioneering technology enables the profitable and consumer-friendly distribution of licensed digital entertainment and advertising via the Internet and peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing systems.
"Craig has an impressive track record of successful sales and strategic marketing accomplishments, and is joining us at a critical time for both our company and the entertainment industry," said Les Ottolenghi, CEO of INTENT MediaWorks.
"Consumer demand for digital music and video has never been stronger, and a growing number of leading content providers and advertisers recognize the coming market opportunity. We are seeing a ground swell of interest in our innovative distribution platform and expect 2007 to be a breakthrough year for INTENT."
Craig Yano has over ten years of sales and business development experience. Most recently, he served as Director of Sales and Marketing at Intercept Technology, where he helped drive revenue growth of 300%. Yano holds a BBA in Marketing from the University of Georgia.
"The Internet and P2P file sharing have transformed the entertainment industry," said Craig Yano. "INTENT leverages the best aspects of this viral market with a unique distribution platform that is profitable and consumer friendly. My role will be to ensure that INTENT works with a full array of artists, companies, and advertisers to revolutionize content distribution and to reach their maximum revenue potential."
INTENT MediaWorks CEO Les Ottolenghi will deliver the opening keynote address at the upcoming P2P MEDIA SUMMIT NY.
Pando Tops 2 Million Installs
DCIA Member Pando Networks, a P2P file-sharing technology developer, has surpassed 2 million installs of its free downloadable application that lets e-mail users send and receive files up to 1GB from their existing e-mail accounts.
"Web users are drawn to Pando because we built a P2P file-sharing application that seamlessly integrates with the most popular online communication tools such as e-mail, IM, podcasting, blogs, and RSS," explained Pando CEO Robert Levitan.
"As such, Pando’s accelerated growth from 1 million to 2 million users in less than four months occurred because people are not only using Pando to send very large files by e-mail and IM, but also to post content to web pages."
Users of Pando can securely and easily send up to 1GB of digital media – home movies, folders of photos, business presentations, and other giant files – to anyone with an e-mail address.
Features include Skype’s Pando Extra through a partnership with fellow DCIA Member Skype. Pando Extra gives Skype 3.0 users enhanced file and folder transfer functionality and an ability to subscribe to video RSS feeds directly within Skype.
Pando E-mail Plug-in enables Gmail, AOL Mail, Hotmail, Yahoo Mail, and Microsoft Outlook fans to easily attach large files and folders of up to 1GB. Pando does the heavy lifting without clogging the inbox.
Yahoo Messenger Pando Plug-in has become one of the most popular plug-ins since the launch of Messenger 8.0, allowing users to share large, high quality media files and folders with Yahoo contacts and any e-mail address.
Pando’s strong data encryption keeps attachments secure with end-to-end encryption and optional password protection.
Pando Networks CEO Robert Levitan and CTO Laird Popkin will present a special live demonstration of Pando’s newest offerings at the upcoming P2P MEDIA SUMMIT NY.
Abacast Streams Emmys from CES
DCIA Member Abacast, in partnership with TV Worldwide, will webcast the Technology & Engineering Emmy Awards from CES live on Monday January 8th at 10:00 PM ET from www.tvworldwide.com and www.tvmainstream.com.
"This is a very exciting opportunity to showcase the quality and efficiency of our technology to deliver such an event at low cost," said Michael King, CEO of Abacast. "This webcast will show the quality of live streaming that can be achieved using our smart, secure P2PTV technology over the web."
Abacast CEO Michael King will be a principal speaker at the upcoming P2P MEDIA SUMMIT NY.
Report from CEO Marty Lafferty
 We hope to see you on Wednesday at CES for our panel entitled Next Generation P2P Music and Film - DRM, Paid-for-Pass-Along, Other Distributed Computing Models, and the Entertainment Industries.
Ours is "Session A – DH27" scheduled from 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM in the Las Vegas Convention Center North Hall.
Digital Hollywood describes it as follows. "With many evolving solutions on the way from paid-for-pass-along with various DRM solutions to advertiser-based options - and now an active trade association for P2P to enhance solutions in the marketplace - we are pleased to hold a standalone session on this topic.
We will go into practical applications of P2P in the marketplace. P2P advocates make claim to a major share of the market that will play a central force in the future of the music and film industries. On this panel, we will hear the case for P2P - understanding its strengths and weaknesses."
Speaking on our panel will be Robert Summer, Executive Chairman, iMesh; Michael Weiss, President & CEO, StreamCast Networks; Peter Bradley, VP, Business Development, Azureus; Jonathan Lee, VP, Business Development, MediaDefender; Andy Cooper, President, INTENT MediaWorks; Jamie Perlman, Director, Business Development, SNOCAP; and Peter H. Kang, Partner, Sidley Austin.
Bob Summer is a music industry veteran and the former head of Sony Music International and RCA Records who has brought extensive knowledge of the music industry to iMesh. He oversees all aspects of the operation and liaises regularly with music industry partners to assure the performance and integrity of this exciting digital music venture.
A graduate of Carnegie Mellon University, Bob is credited with innovations in packaging, product introduction, and the globalization of artist marketing. During his career, he has served as President of the RIAA and on the Board of IFPI, taking active roles opposing copyright infringement. In 2005, Bob was awarded the Distinguished Achievement Award, the highest award granted by the alumni association at Carnegie Mellon.
Mike Weiss, an entertainment industry veteran, joined StreamCast’s predecessor company, MusicCity.com, as its President & CEO in April 2000. He was responsible for repositioning the company from an Internet radio provider into the world’s largest P2P consumer software provider. Under Mike’s leadership, the company introduced the highly popular Morpheus file sharing-software.
Within four months of launch, Morpheus achieved legendary status: 20+ million users, # 1 most popular Internet software, over 1 million downloads weekly, 2 million daily users, and the # 1 most searched Internet subject. Previously, Mike founded WebRadio.com and served as its VP & GM. Before that, he held several positions at Sirius Publishing from 1994 to 1998 after spending 16 years in the home-video industry.
Peter Bradley has responsibility for business development and content licensing at Azureus. Prior to this assignment, he was Vice President of Business Development at PodBridge, where he licensed content from A&E, BBC, Discovery Channel, and FOX; and licensed digital entertainment technology to companies such as iRiver, RCA/Thomson, Samsung, and SanDisc. Previously, he was a founding team member and Director of International Sales for Liquid Audio.
Peter helped build the company from a small start-up to a 350-person, publicly traded firm with offices around the globe. While at Liquid Audio, he secured profitable relationships with the world’s leading entertainment companies including BMG, EMI, New Line Cinema, Sony Music, Universal, Virgin Records, and Warner. Peter holds a BA in International Business from San Francisco State University.
Jonathan Lee is an industry expert in Internet and new media applications and services. As a former software developer, he has extensive knowledge in both the technical aspects as well as business related issues in emerging technology companies. He has spent several years with the Skechers USA Internet/E-Commerce Department, pushing the cutting edge of technology, lifestyle, and design.
Jonathan has also been on the executive management of two successful start-ups including his current position at MediaDefender. He completed his undergraduate studies at the University of California, San Diego, and received his MBA from the University of Southern California Marshall School of Business. Jonathan’s expertise extends from the current state of digital rights management (DRM) to the development and global impact of P2P.
Andy Cooper has over 21 years of experience in venture management, venture investing, and investment banking, including the founding of two successful start-ups. Prior to joining INTENT MediaWorks, he served as Founder, Co-CEO, and Director of Unison Site Management, a leading cellular site owner and manager in North America with a portfolio of over 1,500 cell-site leases, more than $18 million in annual cash flow, and 120 employees.
Prior to Unison, Andy was a Managing Director with The Carlyle Group, focused on North American venture investments. He was also a co-founder of Avesta Technologies, an enterprise, information and technology management software company, where he served as CFO and Vice President of Business Development and Channel Sales. Before that, Andy was with Morgan Stanley & Co. for fourteen years.
Jamie Perlman leads SNOCAP’s business development efforts with retailers. SNOCAP is the first end-to-end provider of digital licensing and copyright management services for the digital media marketplace. SNOCAP’s digital content registry and clearinghouse enables content owners to sell their entire catalogs through SNOCAP-enabled retailers, including P2P networks.
Jamie is responsible for identifying and establishing retail partnership opportunities with existing businesses and those that are exploring entry into this new space. He brings with him over fifteen years experience in the music industry - as a musician, producer, and general manager of an independent record label, Satelitemusica Records. Jamie resides in San Francisco and holds an MBA from the University of Southern California’s Marshall School of Business. Peter H. Kang is a Partner in the San Francisco office of the global law firm of Sidley Austin. He is a member of Sidley’s Intellectual Property Practice Group (ranked in the top 3 nationwide by American Lawyer Magazine), devoted to serving the IP and related legal services needs of technology clients. He counsels clients in patent disputes; technology transfer and IP licensing; strategic IP portfolio development; patent opinions; and IP enforcement and litigation.
Peter has served as an advisor to iPark (formerly known as the Korean Software Incubator), and is an International Advisor for Global Venture Consultants. He is registered to practice before the US Patent and Trademark Office, and is a member of the California bar. Peter received his JD, cum laude, from Georgetown University.
We also hope to see you in New York on Tuesday February 6th for the P2P MEDIA SUMMIT NY, which promises to be our most stimulating and valuable event to date, focusing on the fast-growing P2PTV phenomenon.
The Conference features both established leaders and exciting new companies in the P2P and social networking marketplace from around the world.
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Next New Networks Raises $8 Million
Next New Networks, a consumer media company launching micro-television-networks over the Internet, has received $8 million in funding from Spark Capital, a leading digital media venture capital firm. The funding will be used to accelerate the company’s growth and further product development.
The partners, comprised of traditional and new media veterans, include: Fred Seibert, founder of Frederator Studios, original Creative Director of MTV, and former President of Hanna Barbara; Emil Rensing, original member of the AOL Greenhouse and creator of the popular VOD Cars podcast; Jed Simmons, former COO of the Sundance Group and senior executive at Excite and Turner Broadcasting; Tim Shey, co-founder of Proteus and veteran producer of interactive and mobile media; and Herb Scannell, former Vice Chairman of MTV Networks and President of Nickelodeon
"Next New Networks has brought together some of the best minds from traditional and new media," said Dennis Miller, General Partner, Spark Capital. "The team has a proven track record, has created billions of dollars of brand value in both cable networks and programming, and has first mover experience in mobile, podcasting and video blogging. We are excited by the opportunity this group will have to make an impact on the next generation of Internet brands."
Next New Networks partner Fred Seibert will be a luncheon speaker at the upcoming P2P MEDIA SUMMIT NY.
Raketu Launches Affiliate Program
Raketu Communications, a leading global Internet communications and entertainment company, has launched its Raketu Affiliate program.
Members of Raketu RakOut dial-out VoIP services are automatically enrolled in the program, and can earn 8% on all downstream revenue generated from new customers referred. Rewards are paid each month directly into a RakOut member’s account and can be used towards RakOut dial-out minutes or other services as they become available.
"Our new Affiliate Program offers RakOut members the ability to earn money each month credited to their own RakOut account," said Greg Parker, CEO of Raketu. "Affiliate Program members who refer enough friends and family could conceivably never have to pay for telephony services for calling anywhere in the world whether they are using a computer or mobile phone."
Raketu uses a unique P2P technology, which allows the highest quality VoIP calling and highest call-completion in the industry. Raketu does not use supernodes and, to this end, consumers who choose Raketu do not have the security risk and performance problems associated with competing services.
Raketu’s P2P technology allows communications over any Internet connection from dialup to broadband service. Anyone with Internet access, a Windows PC, and a headset can start using Raketu immediately. At the end of January, the company will release its mobile application, allowing members to make worldwide calls without the excessive roaming and minutes charges normally associated with using a mobile phone.
Consumers can sign up immediately for the Raketu Affiliate program. For details, please visit http://www.raketu.com/en/affiliate-program.php. Raketu CEO Greg Parker will deliver a keynote address at the upcoming P2P MEDIA SUMMIT NY.
Damaka Connects Google & Yahoo IM
Damaka, a fast-growing communication and collaboration software company, has launched instant-messaging (IM) connectivity to Google, Yahoo, AOL, and MSN. This feature allows Damaka users to chat with friends across different platforms without having to launch multiple IM clients.
Seamless instant messaging is a new element of the industry’s smallest downloadable P2P Damaka software, which includes Internet TV, desktop sharing, and video conferencing.
According to MIT student Laila Shabir, "I have been using Damaka VoIP application to make free calls to my family in Dubai. The new Damaka IM is easy to use as I can move from MSN to AOL by clicking on a button. I am so glad that I don’t have to launch other IM clients to talk to my friends around the world. Also, it helps in removing communication tool clutter on my desktop and I am glad there’s finally a company that can do everything in one application."
"With the addition of multi-platform IM to its white-label product suite, Damaka now allows carriers, service providers, and online communities to cost-effectively deliver unified communication and collaboration services to their user base," said Satish Gundabathula, CTO of Damaka.
Damaka’s approach to integrating multiple functionality into its SIP-based, P2P Personal Softswitch aligns with the requirements that many companies have for an out-of-the-box triple play solution to increase productivity and generate new revenue streams.
Damaka’s P2P communication (IM, voice, video, data) is end-to-end encrypted. This feature makes the software a powerful tool for secure and robust corporate communication worldwide.
Music Biz to Relax Digital Restrictions
Excerpted from PC Magazine Report
The anti-digital rights management (DRM) bandwagon is getting more crowded by the day. Even some major-label executives are pushing for the right to sell digital downloads as unprotected MP3s.
In 2007, the majors will get the message, and the DRM wall will begin to crumble. Why? Because they’ll no longer be able to point to a growing digital marketplace as justification that DRM works. Revenue from digital downloads and mobile content is expected to be flat or, in some cases, decline this year. If the digital market does in fact stall, alternatives to DRM will look much more attractive.
Revenue from digital music has yet to offset losses from still-declining CD sales, and digital track sales remain a cause for concern. Month-over-month download figures were largely flat through 2006, even in the face of year-over-year gains. If the expected post-holiday spike in download numbers that has occurred in the past two years is weak, look for the glass on the panic button to break.
"People in the industry will have a very different conversation in January when the dust clears and they realize just how bad this year really was," said Eric Garland, CEO of DCIA industry data resource BigChampagne.
Even more of a concern is mobile. According to Gartner G2 analyst Mike McGuire, the ring-tone market – currently contributing more than half of all digital revenue – will soften during the next 12-18 months as it matures.
Meanwhile, the music industry wants a strong competitor to the monster it created called iTunes. Forcing would-be competitors to sell music incompatible with the popular iPod is not showing any signs of working. Removing DRM would attract powerful new players to the market, and that – the theory goes – will result in more buyers.
"The majors have got to capitulate, or they will continue to have a fractured digital media market that will slow down and stagnate," says Terry McBride, president of DCIA Member Nettwerk Music Group, management home of such acts as Sarah McLachlan and Avril Lavigne.
Here are five places to watch this year’s DRM developments: Amazon, LimeWire, MySpace, eMusic, and Yahoo Music.
AT&T to Support Net Neutrality
Excerpted from Online Minute Report
In a bid to gain approval for its $86 billion merger with BellSouth, AT&T has agreed to support the principles of net neutrality for the next two years. That is, AT&T has agreed it won’t block or slow down access to websites, or otherwise discriminate against certain web publishers.
On one hand, what’s remarkable isn’t that AT&T agreed to support net neutrality, but that this support is being viewed as a major concession.
Consider: the FCC itself in August of 2005 came out with a statement in support of net neutrality. Regulators also say they have the power to enforce neutrality principles, should Internet service providers like AT&T violate them – even without new laws.
In fact, some legislators have argued that laws enshrining net neutrality principles are unnecessary, because the authorities already are empowered to go after companies that violate those principles.
Although net neutrality legislation stalled last year, some advocates hope that a Democratic-controlled Congress will be more likely to pass laws banning Internet service providers from degrading service or blocking consumers from accessing certain sites.
Still, AT&T’s offer – wrung from the telecom by FCC Democrats – is seen as a victory for net neutrality advocates. The Wall Street Journal says that other telecoms may well feel that they, too, must abide by neutrality principle. While not binding on other companies, AT&T seems to have set the standard by which other telecoms will be judged for the next several years.
New China Tax Law Will Impact Media
Excerpted from MediaPost Report by Erik Sass
Anyone who’s interested in advertising in China should pay attention. The parliament is about to enact a new law leveling the playing field for taxation between domestic and foreign companies.
The legislation doesn’t address advertising or media agencies specifically, but its impact will be far-reaching.
The tax law, which raises the tax on foreign profits from 14% to 25%, goes into effect in 2008, putting the squeeze on media planners’ biggest clients in China. Please click here for more.
Grid Computing Gains Acceptance
Excerpted from Chicago Tribune Report by Jon Van
Home computers now are as powerful as supercomputers of a decade past. In fact, it’s like using a new Ferrari to drive four blocks to the grocery store – e-mail and web browsing, but no real workouts.
Indeed, computers mostly do nothing at all, a monumental wasted resource. Research universities years ago figured ways to tie idle computers together, giving them little pieces of huge problems to crunch, such as modeling climate change or designing chemical catalysts.
Seeing the value, savvy corporate information technology managers are adopting the concept for business applications that design airplanes or assess financial risk. And various organizations are recruiting home computers to help search for new cancer treatments, study human proteins, and search for signs of intelligence in outer space.
IBM was among the sponsors that in 2004 launched the World Community Grid that encourages people to donate unused time on their home and office machines to help fight disease and do other socially useful research.
People who volunteer their computers can use their machines as usual, but when they’re asleep or out of the house, their computer will work on problems sent to it by the grid. One project looked for chemicals that could block the advance of the AIDS virus.
In that case, tiny slices of the quadrillions of computations needed were sent to individual computers for calculation. As each computer completed its task and sent back the answers, it got another problem.
Any time the computer’s user wanted to send an e-mail or find a web page, the machine halted its grid work to do what its user wanted. In this fashion, an estimated five years of computations were completed in just six months.
Launched in 2004, the world grid has nearly 245,000 participants with more than 470,000 devices online. Most donors are individuals, but organizations including the Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce and United Way of Metro Chicago also donate computer time. So far the equivalent of 68,000 years of computing time has been donated for humanitarian research by members from 195 countries.
An impressive effort, it’s still only a drop in the bucket of what’s possible considering there are 650 million personal computers worldwide that could be linked to the grid.
Sometimes called distributed computing, many believe the popularity of grid computing will soar. Insight Research, a Boonton, NJ technology research firm, estimates the worldwide spending on grid technology and service totaled $1.8 billion this year and that it will grow to nearly $25 billion by 2011.
Corporate executives noticed that "computers are a thousand times more powerful than they were 15 years ago and they wondered, `Why aren’t we producing more with them?’" said Gerry McCartney, Chief Information Officer at Purdue University. "If you think about it for more than 90 seconds, it doesn’t make sense."
Like many research universities, Purdue has embraced grid computing enthusiastically. Some 4,300 Purdue computers, ranging from machines used by students to do homework to advanced research computers, are linked to receive assignments when they’re not working for their primary users.
On average, Purdue computers operate about 45 percent of the time on their primary work, 45 percent of the time on work assigned from the grid and are idle about 10 percent of the time. Millions of computing hours have been used by academic researchers at Purdue and elsewhere to design potential chemical catalysts, process images from electron microscopes and work on other problems.
In the earliest days of the Internet, some people conceived of it being a huge grid with all the computers interconnected and working together, but it developed differently, said Ian Foster, Director of the Computation Institute at the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory.
"People use the web to communicate with other people through e-mail or with remote data," said Foster, a pioneer in developing grid computing. "The web isn’t for computers to communicate with computers."
Enabling such communications requires special protocols and middleware that Foster and colleagues began developing in the mid-90s so that physicists and other researchers could distribute data to computers around the world to process their problems.
Several hurdles had to be overcome to establish academic grids. The software had to bridge boundaries between institutions and disciplines, said Foster. Those boundaries were crossed primarily because researchers were eager to get access to the computing power grid offered, he said.
Similar boundaries exist today even when a corporation attempts to establish a grid that’s limited to its own organization, said Steve Tuecke, Chief Technology Officer of Univa, a Lisle-based company that markets grid computing to corporate users. Large pharmaceutical companies see the value of grids in helping their researchers collaborate on designing new drugs, Tuecke said. But linking researchers at centers scattered at disparate locations "encounters a lot of the same problems we ran into with academic institutions," he said.
"Many large pharmaceutical companies grew through mergers and acquisitions. You have different operating systems, different security."
Univa’s employees start with the Globus software written for academic researchers, which is open source and freely available, much like the Linux operating system. Univa staff members customize Globus for corporate users. Early adopting industries include pharmaceuticals, semiconductors and aerospace, Tuecke said.
Just as widespread popularity of the Internet marked a new era in computing, grid computing will be part of the next era, said Robert Rosenberg, president of Insight Research.
"Imagine if the web itself did become a grid," said Rosenberg. "What a mind-blower if you had all the computing cycles worldwide available to you. Think about what could be done with that!"
P2P: Looking to 2007
Excerpted from NewTeeVee Report by Jackson West
On Saturday, I took a look at last year’s P2P news. Today I’ll extrapolate from some of those trends to look at what they might mean for the next year. The common thread that jumps out is that the medium of distributing content in general – and video content in particular – has undergone a fundamental shift, from scheduled, one-to-many, to distributed, on-demand. And if legitimate services don’t figure out how to significantly improve the user experience, unauthorized means will continue to thrive.
Hi-Def Blowback: What’s taking high-definition so long to saturate the marketplace now that the hardware prices have finally begun to fall to reasonable levels? Crippleware. Simply put, from HDMI to software DRM to the lack of HD content made available because of piracy fears, mainstream consumers enter a Dantean circle of incompatibility hell. HD-DVD and Blu-Ray will become the focus of consumer ire; Apple could put together a simple, functional solution and thereby set some standards; networks will leverage this to perpetuate one-way HD transmission — but unauthorized distribution will still offer the best user experience.
Ad-supported P2P: Corporate networks that distribute files via P2P should continue to spring up, though will likely flounder due to limited catalogs and content restrictions. Why take up bandwidth downloading ads and DRM’d content from an incomplete selection? A more interesting case would be for an existing Internetradio network to leverage nascent P2P streaming technology in order to cut bandwidth costs, thereby increasing profits from their current revenue streams.
"Traffic Shaping" and Encryption: ISP efforts to minimize the amount of P2P traffic will continue, driving more and more P2P users (legitimate or otherwise) to implement packet encryption. Developers of software and protocols will likely respond by making it significantly easier, if not transparent, to do so. ISP efforts will likely focus on better packet prioritization algorithms and more blunt measures against heavy users generally.
Legitimate Distribution via Torrents: The competitive advantage that distributing large files over P2P networks has not gone unnoticed by content developers. Especially for small to medium businesses, the opportunity to reduce bandwidth expense will be too good to pass up. The download of boutique games, independent video and music, and software trial versions over P2P networks will actually be encouraged by their rights holders.
More Bulk Lawsuits: With news that the German music industry will be employing the RIAA’s tactic of suing a small percentage of unauthorized file traders on a regular basis, look for the prosecution and defense of small-scale, non-commercial copyright abusers to become a profitable sector of the legal field. Neither the record companies nor the general public will be happy with the results either way, but law firms will certainly have an interest in the situation being perpetuated.
The Great BitTorrent Compromise: I don’t know which side will have to cede the most, but between BitTorrent and their content partners, something has to give if BitTorrent is going to become the go-to portal for online video. Either Bram and team will be successful in convincing the studios to improve the experience, or BitTorrent’s growth will be dictated by the acceptance of the studios’ terms by their user base. In the meantime, look for content providers to continue failing miserably at developing their own distribution solutions.
Automated Content Policing: A number of new products that promise to spider online catalogs and flag copyrighted content will become vogue for both the discovery of infringing uses and for reporting content and context to refine ad targeting. Google’s deployment of their solution on YouTube should serve to indicate if such systems are currently realistic on a large scale. More aggressive policing could include more honeypots, client-side indexing by trojans and even malicious viruses.
Convergence: Ultimately, P2P will enable video content to divorce itself from being identified wholly with the television set. The sheer number and variety of devices that can play content combined with the many means of acquiring the content will ultimately change our language and behavior. The primary mediator of the experience will be software, from inexpensive tools to manage and time-shift media input across multiple inputs to the holy grail of convergence, a universal communication tool. Television’s last chance may be HDTV broadcast, but even that ship may have sailed already thanks to unauthorized, P2P-enabled distribution.
Coming Events of Interest
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2007 International CES – January 8th–11th in Las Vegas, NV. With four decades of history, the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) reaches across global markets, connects the industry, and enables CE innovations to grow and thrive. The DCIA will moderate the "Next Generation P2P" panel on Wednesday January 10th, featuring DCIA Member executive Andy Cooper, President of INTENT MediaWorks.
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P2P MEDIA SUMMIT NY – February 6th–8th in New York, NY. The Winter DCIA Conference & Exposition will cover policy, marketing, and technology issues affecting commercial development of this emerging high-growth industry. Exhibits and demonstrations will feature industry-leading products and services, including the newest phenomenon, P2PTV. For sponsor packages and speaker information, please contact Karen Kaplowitz at 888-890-4240 or karen@dcia.info. Plan now to attend.
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Media Summit New York (MSNY) – February 7th–8th in New York, NY. Digital Hollywood’s premier international conference on motion pictures, television, cable & satellite, broadband, wireless, publishing, radio, magazines, news & print media, advertising and marketing. Your registration for the full P2P MEDIA SUMMIT NY Conference & Exposition includes this event as well.
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CONSUMER 2.0: Meeting the Demands of the Connected Consumer - February 21st-22nd in Toronto, Canada. The era of mass media is giving way to one of personal and participatory media. People no longer passively consume media but actively participate, which usually means creating content, in whatever form and on whatever scale. To remain relevant, advertisers and the media need to tap into this energy for innovation and communication by integrating the social media with their marketing mix.
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Digital Music Forum East – February 27th–28th in New York, NY. For the past six years, the most influential decision-makers in the music industry have gathered at Digital Media Wire’s annual music conference. They come to network, do deals, and share ideas about the future of the music business. Participants have described the event as a "melting pot of the best of the best in digital music" where ideas are shared and opinions don’t go unchallenged.
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IPTV World Forum – March 5th-7th in London, England. Mikkel Dissing, CEO of DCIA Member RawFlow, will speak on "TVoverNet: Threat or Opportunity." The company will also demonstrate SelfCast, its revolutionary new live publishing tool for user-generated broadcasting at Booth 70. SelfCast can be built into any existing social community site to allow for live broadcasting of video and audio.
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