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o Court
Rules DirecTV Must Prove Pirate Equipment Used for Piracy
o Music
Retailers Shelve Plan for Digital Song Store Joint Venture
o WSJ:
Rocker Bono, Former EA President Join VC Firm Elevation Partners
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Report: Online Games Sites Are "Stickiest" Overall
o DISH
Network Satellite TV Service Tops 10 Million Subscribers
o Electronic Arts Launches
Fantasy Football League Service
o Music, Movie Retailer Trade
Groups Consider Possible Merger
o Yahoo Unveils Enhanced Email
Features
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Briefly Noted: Blockbuster -
Video game subscriptions, Sony - End2End - StreamMan mobile music
service, Netflix - new shipping center, Zone4Play - LodgeNet,
SeaChange International, Gracenote, Live365 - GarageBand.com
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--PricewaterhouseCoopers' Entertainment and Media Outlook
--Position Your Company for Success - with Technology PR Experts
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o Court Rules DirecTV Must Prove
Pirate Equipment Used for Piracy
Atlanta -- Satellite TV provider DirecTV suffered a setback in
its anti-piracy efforts when the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled
on Tuesday that the company may not file lawsuits against
individuals who simply own equipment that may be used for pirating
satellite TV signals. DirecTV has gone after companies that
manufacture and sell equipment that can be used to pirate satellite
signals, and recently expanded its anti-piracy efforts by filing
24,000 lawsuits against individuals -- including plaintiff Mike
Treworgy -- who through investigations were found to have purchased
such equipment. "American innovators and hobbyists shouldn't have to
fear legal action merely for possessing new technologies that have
many legitimate uses," said Electronic Frontier Foundation staff
attorney Jason Schultz. The case will now be remanded to a lower
court, where DirecTV will have to provide evidence that Treworgy and
other defendants actually pirated satellite TV signals.
http://www.ca11.uscourts.gov/opinions/ops/200315313.pdf
http://www.eff.org/news/archives/2004_06.php#001615
http://www.directv.com
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o Music
Retailers Shelve Plan for Digital Song Store Joint Venture
San Francisco -- A consortium of music retailers including Best
Buy, Virgin, Tower Records and Borders have decided to cut funding
for a plan, announced in early 2003, to create an online store joint
venture to sell digital music -- citing high development costs and
the low profit margins of existing services like iTunes, CNET
News.com reported. The "Echo" project was started in 2001 by a
former executive of Internet radio service Echo Networks and a
consultant whose father had ties with the music retail industry that
enabled them to eventually win the support of major retailers. "The
reality is that compared to all the retailers' bottom lines, even
Apple's music sales are insignificant," Alex Bernstein, a co-founder
and investor in the Echo project, told News.com. "Our board
repeatedly told us that… It ultimately boiled down to the idea that
the numbers didn't justify a large investment at this stage in the
market."
http://makeashorterlink.com/?S6CD13498
http://www.echo.com
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o WSJ: Rocker
Bono, Former EA President Join VC Firm Elevation Partners
Dublin -- The Wall Street Journal reported this week that Bono,
Irish rock star and lead singer of U2, has joined Elevation
Partners, a venture capital firm focusing on entertainment and media
projects, as a managing director. Technology investor Roger McNamee,
former Electronic Arts President John Riccitiello and former Apple
Computer CFO Fred Andersen have also joined the firm. Elevation told
The Journal that the team was hoping to raise at least $1 billion
for a new fund, for which details were not released.
http://online.wsj.com/public/us
http://www.u2.com
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o Report:
Online Games Sites Are "Stickiest" Overall
New York -- Online games websites are the "stickiest" overall, as
visitors to gaming sites spent an average of more than two hours
surfing them during the month of May, according to data from New
York-based Internet audience measurement firm Nielsen/NetRatings.
Over 46 million Americans -- or nearly one in three U.S. Web surfers
-- visited gaming sites in May. Among such sites, Slingo.com was the
stickiest, with visitors spending an average of over four hours
during their visits, followed by EA Online (2:29), MSN Games (2:04)
and AOL Games (1:51). Middle-aged women were the largest demographic
group for online game sites, representing 15% of all online gamers,
while overall, the gender make-up of the online gaming audience was
found to be nearly equal.
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/040616/sfw068_1.html
http://www.nielsen-netratings.com
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o DISH Network
Satellite TV Service Tops 10 Million Subscribers
Englewood, Colo. -- Satellite TV operator EchoStar Communications
announced that its DISH Network service has passed the 10 million
subscriber mark, having added over 6.3 million net new customers
during the last four years. Since launching service in March 1996,
the company has added an average of over 100,000 net new customers
each month. By contrast, DISH Network rival DirecTV claimed a total
of 2.2 million subscribers as of Dec. 31, 2003.
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/040614/145438_1.html
http://www.echostar.com
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o Electronic Arts Launches Fantasy
Football League Service
Redwood City, Calif. -- Video game developer Electronic Arts
announced on Wednesday its foray into the fantasy sports games
market, with the introduction of its EA Sports Fantasy Football
service. The company is collaborating with Stats, an Illinois-based
provider of sports data and statistical analysis to broadcasters, to
provide football data for the service. EA will offer a fully
customizable Commissioner League for $99.99, including up to 32 team
owners, as well as EA Sports Public Leagues, which will match 12
players in leagues for $9.99 per player. Sign-ups for the new
fantasy football service will begin on July 21.
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/040616/165234_1.html
http://biz.stats.com
http://www.easports.com/fantasy
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o Music, Movie
Retailer Trade Groups Consider Possible Merger
Marlton, N.J. -- Two trade groups that represent stores that sell or
rent movies and music -- the National Association of Recording
Merchandisers (NARM) and Video Software Dealers Association (VSDA)
-- are considering a merger, the two groups announced in a joint
statement. NARM's members include retailers such as Tower, Best Buy,
Borders and Target that operate a total of 7,000 stores accounting
for 85% of all U.S. music sales. The VSDA represents 1,200 companies
operating 12,500 stores that sell or rent movies and video games,
including Blockbuster, Wal-Mart and Netflix. "Although NARM's focus
is on the music industry and VSDA's focus is on the home video
industry, the digital and Internet revolution has increased the
number of issues in common to members of both organizations. In
addition to industry consolidation and other economic factors,
matters pertaining to piracy, copyright law, First Amendment
protections, theft prevention, formats, packaging and labeling,
emerging business models, digital delivery and the like concern our
members." The groups said that a letter of intent is in the process
of being formalized.
http://makeashorterlink.com/?H16E22498
http://www.narm.com
http://www.vsda.org
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o Yahoo Unveils
Enhanced Email Features
Sunnyvale, Calif. -- Striking back at rival Google following the
release of that company's free email service, Yahoo launched several
new features on its own mail service, including a major increase in
storage space for both free and premium users. Free email
subscribers have been upgraded to 100-megabytes of storage, 25 times
more than the prior free offering. Premium customers, including
subscribers to SBC Yahoo Dial and DSL, will now have 2 gigabytes of
storage, or twice as much as users of Google's Gmail. Yahoo also
unveiled a new design and improved search capabilities, and removed
graphical ads from its premium email services. In addition, the
company said that it is opening up more than 50 million Yahoo IDs,
giving consumers more address options for their email accounts.
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/040615/155356_1.html
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> DMW Events:
Washington
Digital Media
Conference
June 18,
2004
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Washington, DC
Register online or by Phone
www.digitalmediaconference.com
323-822-0936
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Elliot Maxwell - Fellow, Center for the Study of American
Gov., Johns Hopkins Univ.,
Distinguished Research Fellow,
eBusiness Research Ctr, Pennsylvania State Univ.
Doug
Lowenstein - President, Entertainment Software Association
Mitch Glazier - SVP,
Gov. Relations & Legislative Counsel, RIAA
Caroline Little - CEO,
Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive
FEATURED SPEAKERS
Magid Abraham - President, CEO & Co-Founder, comScore Networks
William Allman - SVP & GM,
Interactive New Media, Discovery Networks
Aileen Atkins - SVP, Business Affairs, Napster
Larry Blosser - Of Counsel, Gray Cary
Jody Brannon - Executive Producer, USAToday.com
Pat Breslin - CEO,
Relatable
Jeff Briggs - Founder, President & CEO, Firaxis Games
Matt Bromberg - Vice President & GM, AOL Games
Jeffrey Bronikowski - Vice President, eLabs, Universal
Music Group
Ron Chaimowitz - President & CEO, PlayTV Inc.
Alan Davidson - Asso. Director,
Center for Democracy & Technology
(CDT)
Sarah Deutsch – VP & Associate General Counsel,
Verizon
Allison Dollar - Co-President,
Interactive Television Alliance
Tim Dunne - VP, Digital Media,
Nextel Communications, Inc.
Eugene Evans - President, Infinite
Ventures
Reed Freeman – Chief Privacy Officer,
Claria Corporation
Gerald Gordon -
President & CEO, Fairfax County Economic Dev. Authority
Rags Gupta - COO, Live365
Chris Haines - Managing Editor, USNews.com, U.S. News &
World Report
Stewart Halpern - Managing Dir., Digital Entertainment
Research, RBC Capital
Bill Holland - Washington Bureau Chief, Billboard Magazine
Mark Jacobs - CEO, Mythic Entertainment
Marc Juris - President, Fuse (a subsidiary of
Rainbow Media Holdings LLC)
Scott Kauffman - CEO, MusicNow
Marty Lafferty - CEO,
Distributed Computing Industry Association (DCIA)
Kevin Lapidus - General Counsel,
YellowBrix, Inc.
David Leibowitz - Managing Partner, CH Potomac
Lon Levin - SVP, Regulatory Affairs,
XM Satellite Radio Holdings, Inc.
David Levine - CEO, Butterfly.net
David Lipsey - VP, Media & Entertainment, Artesia
Karen Litsinger - VP & Associate
General Counsel, America Online, Inc.
Lydia Loizides - Analyst,
Media & Ent., Ziff Brothers Investments
Adrian McAloon - Director of Marketing, Ztango
Chris McAndrews - SVP & General Manager,
Nationalgeographic.com
Patrick McQuown - President, Proteus
Mark Myers - Vice President of
Strategic Alliances, Convera
David Oxenford - Partner, Shaw Pittman
Jonathan Potter - Executive Director, Digital Media
Association
Larry Rebich - VP of Program
Acquisition & Market Dev., SIRIUS Satellite Radio
Wayne Rosso - CEO, Optisoft, SL (former President of
Grokster)
Laurence Roth - VP, Mktg & Bus.
Dev./Co-Founder, Cinea
(Dolby Labs subsidiary)
Warren Schlichting - Vice President, New Business Strategy,
Comcast
Dan Scherlis - CEO, Etherplay
Ned Sherman - CEO & Co-Founder, Digital Media Wire
Paul Sherman - President & Publisher, Tech Wire Media Group
Sherrese Smith - Assoc. Gen. Counsel,
Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive
Christina Tancredi, SVP
of Marketing, Advertising and Sponsorship Sales,
Music Choice
Yoav Tzruya - VP of Technologies &
Markets Strategy, Exent
Technologies
Stephen Warley - General Manager,
TVSpy (a Vault
service)
Debbie Weil - Publisher, WordBiz Report
Michael Weiss -
CEO, StreamCast Networks (owner, Morpheus P2P
software)
Gabe Zichermann - VP, Strategy & Communications, Trymedia
OVERVIEW
Media and entertainment companies are
going through a digital transformation, which is impacting
traditional business models and changing the way we distribute,
access and market media and entertainment.
Washington Digital Media Conference
brings
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media, entertainment and technology
companies in the Greater Washington, DC area
for a 1-day executive forum
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technology
developments impacting digital media.
Get a unique view of the future of media and entertainment from
the inside. Gain insight into new business opportunities driving
the transformation of entertainment and media businesses. Take a
hard look at how traditional challenges to sustainable business
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how we can prepare now to overcome them. Examine media and
entertainment-based technologies emerging today and explore how
these technologies are driving the transformation of the media
and entertainment industries.
How are traditional business models being
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digital media? What do you need to do to stay competitive in the
technology age? Be a part of this inaugural event, which brings
together the business and government leaders who are transforming
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Phone: 323-822-0936
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o Briefly Noted: (Dallas)
Video rental giant Blockbuster on Wednesday introduced a new
unlimited video game rental service, the Flip Card. The $49 service
allows customers to rent an unlimited number of games, one at a
time, for three consecutive months.
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/040616/law006_1.html
http://www.blockbuster.com
(Helsinki) Sony Network Services Europe said on Wednesday that it
has launched a mobile music streaming service, along with mobile
data services provider End2End. The StreamMan service lets users
stream a catalog of major and independent label music, as well as
access news, artist information and community and personalization
features on their 3G or GPRS handsets. Sony launched StreamMan with
wireless carrier TeliaSonera in Finland, and will roll-out across
Europe in the near future.
http://www.sony-europe.com
http://www.end2endmobile.com
(Los Gatos, Calif.) Online DVD rental service Netflix announced
on Wednesday that it has opened a new shipping center in Las Vegas,
serving almost 700,000 households in Nevada and Arizona. The company
says it now reaches 80% of its members with generally one-day
delivery, and expects five percent of U.S. households to become
Netflix members by 2006.
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/040616/sfw063_1.html
http://www.netflix.com
(Wilmington, Del.) Zone4Play, a developer of wireless and
interactive TV games, announced on Wednesday that LodgeNet, a
provider of in-room interactive entertainment systems to hoteliers,
has deployed its games on LodgeNet systems. Delaware-based
Zone4Play's TV GameRoom offering includes games like Blackjack,
Video Poker and Roulette.
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/040616/ukw005_1.html
http://www.lodgenet.com
http://www.zone4play.com
(Maynard, Mass.) SeaChange International, a provider of
video-on-demand delivery equipment, on Wednesday introduced a new
high-definition-enabled video-on-demand recording system for its
cable TV operator customers. Massachusetts-based SeaChange's
video-on-demand systems are currently deployed with over 100 systems
in 17 of the top 25 U.S. markets.
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/040616/165467_1.html
http://www.schange.com
(Emeryville, Calif.) Gracenote, a provider of CD recognition and
other online digital media information services, announced on
Wednesday that it has named Jim Doehrman as its new chief financial
officer. Doehrman most recently served as chief financial officer of
the claims services division of ADP.
http://www.gracenote.com/corporate/press/article.html/date=2004061500
(Foster City, Calif.) Internet radio network Live365 announced on
Wednesday that it has partnered with GarageBand.com, a site where
bands can create their own Web pages and post their songs, to make
songs from GarageBand artists available to Live365 Web radio station
operators. San Francisco-based GarageBand will waive the digital
performance royalties on the music, and work with Live365 to create
links that encourage listeners to purchase downloads or CDs. Foster
City, Calif.-based Live365 offers thousands of individual stations
and over 2 million listeners a month.
http://www.live365.com
http://www.garageband.com
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Classifieds: > No. 1 Mobile Media Firm in U.S. is Looking For LA
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> Director of Marketing (eBusiness Consulting Services)
McFadyen Consulting is an established eBusiness integrator
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> Sr. Software Engineer
Java Engineer with a minimum of 5 years experience working
with and developing for distributed systems. Must have strong OO
development skills and complete understanding of the Java
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technical writing, remote debugging, Apache, Tomcat, CVS, Struts,
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Send resumes to
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> Account Executive for Award Winning Marketing
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RMR & Associates (http://www.rmr.com) the recognized leader in
B2B marketing with over 275 campaigns under our belt, is looking
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> Web Project Manager
Redmon Group is seeking to fill a PM position that will be
responsible for the hands-on project management of Redmon
technology solutions such as: Web sites, transportation
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projects. All applicants must have hands-on interactive project
development skills and management experience. Clients include:
Discovery Channel, Smithsonian, World Bank, Arlington County, DEA,
and ATF. Send resumes to
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> Senior Financial Analyst
Online Resources, a leading provider of online banking to
financial institutions across the United States is looking for a
Sr. Financial Analyst to track & analyze monthly revenues &
expenses against budget; support management in the annual budget
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