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SAN FRANCISCO, July 11: Two months since inking a content deal with Warner Bros., peer-to-peer file sharing website BitTorrent has added a further 1,600 titles to its offerings via deals with Hart Sharp Video, Egami Media (a subsidiary of Image …

LONDON, July 11: Ross Bentley, the managing director of Rights Tracker, tells World Screen Newsflash about the company’s ambitions to take its web-based rights management software into key European markets and into the U.S. Since formally launching last December, the …

HILVERSUM, July 11: Interactive content developer 2waytraffic has acquired format developer and distributor Intellygents for 5 million euros, with a deferred consideration dependent upon the financial performance of Intellygents until 2009. The deal, subject to shareholder approval, provides 2waytraffic with …

SEOUL, July 11: KBS World, the international cable and satellite channel operated by the Korean terrestrial KBS, is now available in the Middle East via the satellite platform ArabSat 2D. ArabSat brings the Korean-language channel to 22 Middle Eastern countries, …

LOS ANGELES, July 11: The Grupo Televisa and Univision Communications joint venture TuTv is set to begin offering to cable and satellite platforms in the U.S. a video on demand package delivering 100 Spanish-language titles. TVN Entertainment has been appointed …

LOS ANGELES, July 11: Playboy’s Alta Loma Entertainment has been commissioned by the cable channel Players Network to produce Playboy’s Women of Poker, a poker competition with the winner possibly scoring a spread in Playboy Magazine. Five regional qualifying Texas …

NEW YORK, July 11: Time Warner expects its AOL division to lose some $1 billion in operating profits through 2009 should it go ahead with a proposed plan to offer free Internet access to some customers, according to the Wall …

SEATTLE, July 11: A collection of Superman cartoons produced in the 1940s will be made available for free at ReelTimeTV.com, with parent company ReelTime Rentals offering to make a donation to the Christopher Reeve Foundation (CRF) every time the series …

BUDAPEST, July 11: Sony Pictures Television International today announced plans to launch two new thematic channels in Poland, Romania, Bulgaria and Hungary: AXN SCI-FI and AXN CRIME. The ad-supported channels will be dubbed into local languages in their markets and …

LONDON, July 11: Fremantle International Distribution (FID) notched up a slate of Central and Eastern European deals at DISCOP last month on key titles such as the six-part Prehistoric Park. The factual series Prehistoric Park from Impossible Pictures sold to …