For years now we have seen content distributed to captive audiences. The content is generally subsidized or paid for outright by advertisers who take advantage of the viewers complete attention to display product placements.
From the “backwards thinking department” at Techdirt comes an example of old media’s inability to understand the media market of today. The [...]
We seem to be in the midst of a full blown frenzy of copyright related posts here at Impatient Sufferance. Since we’re having such fun, why stop?
Today we have word that ABC is tape delaying the broadcast of tonight’s debates and claiming that no news network may rebroadcast more than 30 seconds of the debate. [...]
One of the issues that we Impatient Sufferers are particularly interested in is media rights. As we move away from physical distribution of music, movies and books towards some sort of digital distribution system, we find ourselves in the middle of a debate about who owns that media and what consumers can do with the [...]
As a baseball fan, I regularly read the sports news and opinions provided to me by traditional media sources. As a citizen in the digital age I also look to alternative sources for my baseball fix, particularly blogs. This year MLB is taking blogs seriously and that may be bad news for the little [...]