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Major media and entertainment companies backing the Entertainment ID Registry (EIDR) announced on Wednesday that they have begun to integrate the media identification and tracking ... More

A bill that requires California’s optical disc manufacturers to comply with stricter anti-piracy measures has passed in both houses of the state’s legislature. Following the C... More

It’s still unclear whether iTunes Match will offer music streaming, despite a video clip (via Insanely Great Mac) demonstrating what appears to be a streaming function in Apple�... More

The strongest shaking from Tuesday afternoon’s 5.8-magnitude earthquake occurred less than 100 miles from an Amazon Web Services data center in Virginia. But the earthquake produ... More

A New York federal court has ruled that cloud music service MP3tunes.com is compliant with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), even as the site's founder, longtime digital... More

Sony DADC is resuming retail fulfillment operations for the UK’s largest independent music distributor, following the destruction of millions of CDs and vinyl LPs in an Aug. 8 fi... More

By Mel Lambert “Tracking physical goods and digital media through the supply chain has close comparisons with traditional transport infrastructures,” says Paul Lavery, directo... More

Home entertainment consumers still love their DVD and Blu-ray discs — especially when it comes to rentals. Consumer spending on disc rentals during the second quarter of 2011 to... More

Equipment Supplier Expects Sales of 50 Blu-ray Replication Lines in 2011 By Mel Lambert With a full order book for its Blu-ray replication equipment, Singulus Technologies is con... More

Walmart is planning to shutter its MP3 storefront by the end of August, after more than 7 years of trying to position itself as a contender in the digital music marketplace. Either... More

Pick, Pack and Ship Services Could Resume ‘In the Course of Next Week,’ Says Music Distributor The Association of Independent Music (AIM), a UK trade group, is spearheading ef... More

A third night of rioting in greater London has threatened havoc on the UK’s entertainment supply chain, with a fire at Sony DADC’s Enfield distribution center reportedly destro... More

The price of promotion on Amazon.com’s Appstore may be changing for some developers. One developer whose app recently saw placement as the Appstore’s “free app of the day”... More

Zediva, the unlicensed streaming video service fighting for its life in a California federal court, has yet to persuade a judge on its interpretation of copyright law. U.S. Distric... More

By Mel Lambert In the age of digital workflows, Burbank, Calif.-based My Eye Media is leaving traffic-choked freeways and surface roads behind. With a new 10 Gigabit-per-second c... More

GE Global Research has developed a micro-holographic storage material that can support data recording at the same speed as Blu-ray discs — a development that further advances the... More

By Mel Lambert Culver City, Calif.-based 3rd i QC says that its collaborative approach to quality assurance for major motion-picture studios and independent content producers help... More

A little more than a month ago, Netflix content chief Ted Sarandos conceded at an investor’s conference that there were “a lot of markets that are terribly underserved for DVD ... More

London-based post-production company Digital Media Services (DMS) is the latest facility to receive full content security accreditation from the Content Delivery and Storage Associ... More