Join me at the first Digital Breakfast DC on Oct. 1

The Media Wonk will be hosting the first Digital Breakfast DC conference on Oct. 1 in, not surprisingly, Washington, DC. The topic for the panel is Using Tech to Safeguard Content and IP. Panelists include Rick Cotton, general counsel of NBC Universal, Prof. Peter Jaszi of Washington College of Law at American University, Jon Baumgarten, partner with Read More …

Redbox, RealDVD and Hollywood’s long stuggle with consumer demand, Part I

There’s something about the video rental market, to borrow a phrase from Barack Obama, that causes the studios to get all wee-weed up. Back in 1983, not long after the Hollywood studios began, ever-so tentatively, to release movies on the newly introduced half-inch videocassette for watching at home, they were horrified to discover that some enterprising video Read More …