Quibi, a mobile streaming service that launched in April, now lets viewers screenshot its shows, the company’s head of product Tom Conrad said in a Twitter thread Thursday — a seemingly simple function but one that’s crucial to building social-media buzz for shows. Everyone! start your meme maker: Mock the Golden Arm with precise photographic …
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MatchStick was due to be released this month. MatchStick/Kickstarter Matchstick, the dongle intended to challenge Google’s Chromecast in streaming video and music to your television, is no more. The team behind the HDMI media-streaming stick announced Monday it has decided to cancel the unreleased product and refund all the money raised in a wildly successful Kickstarter campaign last year. The …
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One year after Tor launched its DRM-free store, the publisher has said that there has been “no discernible increase” in piracy. (Credit: Tor) In April last year, Tor Books, the science fiction and fantasy imprint of Pan Macmillan, announced that it would be removing Digital Rights Management software from the digital editions of its books. It was a controversial move, …
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