Topic: Eric Garland

The studios were preparing to cut and run from digital distribution in October 2009, the last time I spoke at length with Eric Garland, CEO and co-founder of Big Champagne. Based on his decade of experience and his experiences with the music ...
As Netflix revenues soar and as Hulu ponders a $300 million public offering, a group of people who played an enormous part in the brightening prospects of Web TV is very much overlooked. , 20th Century Fox, Paramount, NBC Universal, and Sony Pictures ...
During a visit to Hollywood last week, I wanted to talk to people who knew a thing or two about the film industry's burgeoning meltdown. One of the people I sought out was Eric Garland, CEO and co-founder of Big Champagne ...
A chart of the most TV shows illegally downloaded on the internet has been released, with US dramas topping the list.. While it's not an accolade any TV series would want, Heroes - Tim Kring's superhero soap opera - is the most ...

The Pirate Bay's Revolt

On Tuesday, the Web's top bittorrent tracking and indexing site, the Pirate Bay, announced that it had agreed to sell itself to the Swedish gaming company Global Gaming Factory for the equivalent of $7.7 million, in a deal designed to ...

Why Google Is The New Pirate Bay

This week has offered a hard lesson for pirates, both water- and Web-based: On Friday, the trial of the Pirate Bay, the Web's highest-profile source of TV shows, movies and music, came to an end when a Swedish court found the ...

Illegal downloading is here to stay

Researchers analysed the downloading of Radiohead's In Rainbows ? "These non-traditional venues are stubbornly entrenched, incredibly popular and will never go away," said Eric Garland, co-author of the study by the MCPS-PRS Alliance and Big Champagne, an online media measurement company. Speaking ...

Spore's Piracy Problem

How do you measure the failure of the copy protections that software companies place on their media products? In the case of Electronic Arts' highly-anticipated game "Spore," just count the pirates. "You are letting [Electronic Arts] know that people won't stand ...