Well, thank you, PRS: An unrealistically high demand for royalties on videos shown on YouTube in the UK means that music videos are about to vanish from British PCs: YouTube said today that after the expiry of its former deal, PRS had proposed new payment terms that would be financially prohibitive ...

My father's family name was Winkelman. I changed mine in 1973 when I became a citizen of Israel although I had been known in Betar circles by Medad since 1965. My father's family came from Zbarz (and Jewish Zbarz here). Well, let's get to the news: The son of Prince and Princess Michael of Kent has ...

SoundExchange continues to try and strangle small webcasters like SomaFM, RadioIO, DI.FM, RadioParadise and others. They've offered us a not very good agreement... that among other things says we can't publicly complain about or discuss the agreement, and we can't talk to Congress about anything rel...

Like all Brits under 57*, I have grown up only knowing one sovereign the whole of my life. The amount of visuals about this Queen throughout my life have been absolutely overwhelming. I have seen the Queen smile. I have seen the Queen laugh. I have seen the Queen annoyed. I have seen the Queen look ...

This bill as it stands probably doesn't do much for webcasters, other than propose to take away the exemption for terrestrial broadcasters. I'm disappointed that it doesn't say that all forms of broadcasting will pay the same price, be it terrestrial or digital. Media Week has more on the story, inc...

It's Monday, which apparently means time for yet another Blu-ray fighting Chinese high definition disc format, this time NVD. With China Blue HD barely out the door and EVD conspicuous only in its absence, HD NVD players apparently went on sale today in Wuhan, featuring 12GB of storage on a red lase...

Filed under: Other formats, Other hardware, Players, Olevia It's Monday, which apparently means time for yet another Blu-ray fighting Chinese high definition disc format, this time NVD. With China Blue HD barely out the door and EVD conspicuous only in its absence, HD NVD players apparently went on ...

Filed under: Celebrities with Style We'll see how long this break up lasts, but word on the street is that Prince Harry split (again) from party-hardy girlfriend Chelsy Davy. The handsome prince won't be lonely for long, and we have some brilliant (if we do say so ourselves) suggestions for his next...

Should start out with a laugh....

"Sure, I am all for abominating racism like any other form of odious collectivism... but this hypersensitivity to any politically incorrect use of language is really annoying." *** I loved the part where Harry's spoofing a phone conversation with the Queen: "Granny I've got to go, send my love to th...