Internet TV is growing at an insane rate. According to comScore, U.S. Internet users viewed more than 12 billion online videos during the month, up 45 percent versus year ago.
Nearly 142 million U.S. Internet users watched an average of 85 videos per viewer in May.
Google Sites (mainly YouTube) attracted the most viewers (83.8 million), who [...]

Twentieth Century Fox and Apple today announced Digital Copy for iTunes, which provides customers who purchase a DVD with an additional Digital Copy of the movie that can be transferred to iTunes and then viewed on a PC or Mac, iPod with video, iPhone or on Apple TV.
“Now movie fans can easily transfer a free [...]

Several of the world’s leading Internet and media companies today announced their joint support for a set of copyright guidelines for user-generated content designed to protect the intellectual property of content owners.
According to the companies, the principles offer a comprehensive set of guidelines to help user-generated content (UGC) services and content creators work together to [...]

This year, it’s looking more and more like the major broadcast networks are going to be taking baby steps into Internet media, experimenting with a variety of different methods of delivery while trying to protect their traditional business model:

Fox plans to offer the season premiere episodes of seven programs for free through Apple’s iTunes store, [...]

Fox has signed a deal with Internet TV service Brightcove to offer ad-supported Internet video channels for Fox, FX and Speed.
“Brightcove’s tools and services enable us to quickly and easily deploy broadband video on our network Web sites while retaining control over the quality, brand experience, and monetization of our content.” said David Baron, vice [...]

Local TV broadcasters are worried about the rise of Internet television. They’re seeing popular prime-time content like Fox’s 24 go online, and wonder if the rise of Internet TV will put them out of business.
While Internet television is creating new opportunities for content providers, local affiliates think that the Web may give networks more clout [...]

Twentieth Century Fox has subpoenaed YouTube to reveal the identity of users who uploaded four episodes of the TV series “24″ and twelve episodes of “The Simpsons,”.
From the subpoena:
On or about January 8, 2007, Fox became aware that a subscriber (”the Subscriber”) of YouTube Inc.s’ Internet-based service uploaded pirated copies of the works onto YouTube, [...]

BitTorrent has announced a slate of partnerships with a variety of leading film and television companies, including 20th Century Fox, G4, Kadokawa Pictures USA, Lionsgate, MTV Networks, Palm Pictures, Paramount Pictures and Starz Media.
BitTorrent is a peer-to-peer (P2P) file distribution protocol that lets users share large files , while minimizing bandwidth charges for distributors.
“BitTorrent has [...]

Four major studios, Universal, 20th Century Fox, Paramount and Warner Bros, are reported to be pressuring Apple Computer are pressing Apple to make changes to iTunes before they will agree to make their films available via the iTunes Store.Currently, content on iTunes can be synced to an unlimited number of iPods. The studios want Apple [...]

Fox Reality has partnered with Apple to deliver the first episode of all of its upcoming series to iTunes for free, one week prior to their premieres.
The first series to premiere on iTunes, Fox’s My Bare Lady, promises to be controversial. The series follows U.S. adult film stars Kirsten Price, Nautica Thorn, Sasha Knox, and [...]