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[Paul Kapustka's Blog] ASPEN, Colo. -- Seeing a high-quality copy of "Desperate Housewives" obtained 15 just minutes after the episode's airing was a seminal moment in Disney's corporate decision to offer parts of its content online (via Apple's iTunes store), said Disney exec Anne Sweeney in her keynote address Monday morning here at the Progress & Freedom Foundation's Aspen Summit.

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 Torrentfreakhttp://torrentfreak.com  Torrentfreak: Anne Sweeney, the president of the Disney-ABC television group was “inspired” after seeing a pirated copy of the hit-show “desperate housewives”. (via Cosmos)

http://weblog.ipcentral.info  IPcentral Weblog - Intellectual Property and Copyright Commentary: "The right to exchange information in private is fundamental to the democratic society. Without a safe and convenient way of accessing the internet anonymously, this right is rendered null and void," he said in a statement. (via Cosmos)

Paidcontent.orghttp://www.paidcontent.org [Paidcontent.org] PaidContent.org: June 07, 2005 Archives: : At the first session at the Digital Media Summit, the panel is about what is working in digital media and what isn't.-- Larry Shapiro, Disney Internet Group, Exec. VP: In some senses, it is still about large files...it takes a fair amount of time, due to underlying DRM and size issues.

[Blog.gartner.com] Gartner Research Blog for the Media Industry: Internet videos from sites like ESPN, HGTV, A&E, MTV, MSN and many others feature unskippable pre-roll ads, and Disney's recent announcement that it would make primetime TV content available for free download with skip-proof ads demonstrates the idea is continuing to evolve in the minds of media executives who, like Philips, are quick to point out that consumers may have the option to pay for ad-free versions of content. Yet, the Philips patent lays bare the question of whether the unwritten contract between TV networks and viewers that has consumers watching ads in return for free programs has been so compromised by personal video recorders (PVRs), clutter, and multitasking that radical new measures of enforcement are needed.

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