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Piracy Games

No one on the distribution or content side of the industry wants piracy. It’s a bad look, and it hurts the entire value chain that depends on consumers paying for what they watch (or at least watching ads). That’s why this week’s announcement by the Motion Picture Association’s enforcement group, the Alliance for Creativity and …

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Another AT&T Data Breach Impacts Almost All Mobile Customers

AT&T last week revealed a massive data breach involving call and text records logged from the vast majority of its mobile customers, with the incidents occurring between May and October 2022, and then again on Jan. 2, 2023. Impact: This security breach, first discovered in April, affected “nearly all” AT&T wireless customers, including subscribers to …

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Apple’s Radical Vision

With Apple’s Vision Pro set to launch on February 2, the company has started letting select journalists try it out (with much hand-holding) in hopes of eliciting rave reviews that will help drive sales of the $3,500 augmented and virtual reality device. Not since the launch of the iPhone has Apple made such a radical …

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Comcast Delivers Symmetrical Multi-Gigabit Speeds with DOCSIS 4.0

Comcast first started rolling out its long-awaited DOCSIS 4.0 upgrades to select neighborhoods in Colorado Springs, CO, in October, announcing at the time that it planned to launch the technology to parts of the Atlanta and Philadelphia metro areas by the end of the year. Impact: Barely a month later, Comcast made good on its …

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A Long Holiday Road

To say that reports of an imminent deal between actors and studios were greatly exaggerated is an understatement… would be an understatement. Talks that had reportedly been progressing nicely between the AMPTP and the Screen Actors Guild-AFTRA over the last several days didn’t just fade away this week. They blew up as the AMPTP walked …

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AT&T Moves Deeper into FWA with Wider Internet Air Launch

AT&T’s expansion of its Internet Air fixed wireless access service to 16 additional markets this month signals the company wants to join rivals T-Mobile and Verizon in 5G fixed wireless access service. Impact: After sticking to its all-fiber strategy for the past several years and downplaying its interest in FWA, AT&T rolled out its Internet …

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WGA – Striking A Balance

The Hollywood strikes got real this week, although it’s unclear how the latest machinations between the Writers Guild of America and the AMPTP will ultimately affect what still seems like an intractable gulf. On the positive front, Tuesday brought a much needed sit-down between WGA negotiators and AMPTP President Carol Lombardini, who showed up with …

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Comcast Q2 Earnings  

Comcast’s Q2 earnings report lays bare why well-diversified media companies tend to weather economic storms and business challenges better than others over the long term. Yes, Comcast’s stock ended Thursday down more than 9% and continued to decline into Friday morning. Yes, the company lost 497,000 video subs in the quarter, far worse than the …

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