Category Archives: Content Distribution
April 26, 2011
Digital Rights Management (DRM) is about access control. It’s been a lightning rod for both corporate and consumer rights advocates. Who really owns what content?
DRM concerns usually center around commercially produced songs and movies. This is a small piece of a bigger pie. Our lives are now powered by content – both what we consume and what we produce. The question of ownership is growing in lock step with importance of content in our lives. Continue reading »
April 20, 2011
As web content continues to expand, Internet infrastructure is facing stresses familiar to our metropolitan centers. Content sprawl looks like urban sprawl.
A new outer ring suburb has exploded into view over the last year: smart phones and tablets. Internet capacity is hard-pressed to keep up. And like adding traffic lanes, people want more capacity, but not if they have to pay for it. Continue reading »
April 15, 2011
Cell towers may be a thing of the past, if Alcatel-Lucent’s lightRadio cube is successful. While that’s a pleasant thought, there’s a much bigger trend behind this technology shift: the world’s networks are dissolving. Continue reading »
April 13, 2011
NAB, the Rite of Spring for content publishers and distributors, is once again upon us. The industry has brought both the new and the familiar to Las Vegas this year: Continue reading »
April 12, 2011
DCIA hosted a panel at NAB today on the impact of cloud computing on broadcasters. It was a thoughtful view into this fast-changing space. Continue reading »
April 5, 2011
Monetizing content is hard. But digital content has the potential to buck the trend of “free always wins” seen with other online business models, for two reasons:
1. Free content is not actually free.
2. Content has a freshness date. Continue reading »
March 29, 2011
What would you think about a company that sold you a high-end piece of equipment that came with a user manual that was a black-and-white, stapled document?
In the digital era, paper documents have given way to CDs and DVDs for physical product documentation. Yet many companies deliver the equivalent of stapled sheets with poorly labeled, manually recorded discs. Continue reading »
February 28, 2011
Gordon Moore famously described the relentless exponential growth rate of computing power with Moore’s Law. Since then, a similar rule has been observed for computer storage. Digital content follows that familiar path – a steady exponential march to increasingly larger files. Continue reading »
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