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Toshiba announced that its loss from dropping the HD DVD biz will cost them $1.1 billion USD for the 2007 fiscal year, more than double its earlier projected loss.
Ouch!
I came across an article yesterday that talks about how the CBC is to release episodes of the upcoming TV-show “Canada’s Next Great Prime Minister” for free via BitTorrent. This makes CBC the first North-American broadcaster to embrace the popular filesharing protocol.
According to Michael Geist, high quality copies of the show will be published the day after it aired on TV, without any DRM restrictions. Michael believes this development is important as it shows the CBC continues to experiment with alternative forms of distribution, but also this may help crystallize the net neutrality issue in Canada.
Kudos to the CBC - they understand new media.
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