http://www.gizmodo.co.uk Thu, 23 May 2013 20:00:19 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/12/youtube-took-2-billion-views-away-from-sony-universal-and-others/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/12/youtube-took-2-billion-views-away-from-sony-universal-and-others/#comments Sun, 23 Dec 2012 23:00:33 +0000 Eric Limer http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=130194 While Gangnam style was out racking up a billion views, channels owned by Sony and Universal have moved twice as far in the other direction. YouTube has stripped them of these views alleging a violation of the YouTube terms of service which prohibit the artificial inflating of view-counts. According to SocialBlade statistics dug up by [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/12/youtube-took-2-billion-views-away-from-sony-universal-and-others/feed/ 4 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/11/hps-music-streaming-service-will-power-windows-8-computers-good-news-if-you-like-rihanna/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/11/hps-music-streaming-service-will-power-windows-8-computers-good-news-if-you-like-rihanna/#comments Tue, 06 Nov 2012 16:30:31 +0000 Kat Hannaford http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=118204 HP’s partnership with Universal Music was unveiled several months back, but it’s taken until now for the full bevy of info-children to tumble out: basically, HP Connected Music will be pre-loaded onto all of HP’s Windows 8 computers, offering up free streaming access to Universal (and EMI’s, don’t forget) entire catalogue of music, plus a [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/11/hps-music-streaming-service-will-power-windows-8-computers-good-news-if-you-like-rihanna/feed/ 3 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/05/lovefilm-signs-an-exclusive-universal-movie-deal-so-you-can-finally-stream-battleship/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/05/lovefilm-signs-an-exclusive-universal-movie-deal-so-you-can-finally-stream-battleship/#comments Wed, 30 May 2012 09:00:56 +0000 Sam Gibbs http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=72982 The UK streaming war continues fiercely with Amazon’s LoveFilm still trading blows with Netflix. The latest round in the revived firefight sees LoveFilm secure an exclusive multi-year deal with Universal for such gems as the Tetris Battleship movie, Kick-Ass and Bourne Legacy. It’s great news if you’re a LoveFilm Instant subscriber, as you’ll finally be [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/05/lovefilm-signs-an-exclusive-universal-movie-deal-so-you-can-finally-stream-battleship/feed/ 7 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2011/12/meta-universal-music-censors-news-story-about-its-censorship-of-megaupload/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2011/12/meta-universal-music-censors-news-story-about-its-censorship-of-megaupload/#comments Thu, 15 Dec 2011 17:50:58 +0000 Mario Aguilar http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=26671 Universal Music's legal department sure has been busy! Late last week UMG had a song defending Megaupload removed from YouTube on a false copyright claim. Then on Monday, the company had a news report removed on the same grounds.]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2011/12/meta-universal-music-censors-news-story-about-its-censorship-of-megaupload/feed/ 2 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2011/12/megaupload-sues-record-label-for-censorship/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2011/12/megaupload-sues-record-label-for-censorship/#comments Mon, 12 Dec 2011 17:20:19 +0000 Mario Aguilar http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=25496 Megaupload says it's suing Universal Music Group. Wait, what? File sharing vector suing copyright holder? Megaupload went on the offensive against the recording industry with a video uploaded to YouTube featuring big name artists. Universal had it taken down (we found a mirror).]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2011/12/megaupload-sues-record-label-for-censorship/feed/ 4