"Apple refused to cooperate with NBC on building filters into its iPod player to remove pirated movies and videos. Microsoft, by contrast, will accept NBC’s pricing scheme and will work with it to try to develop a copyright “cop” to be installed on

Sharp looking video and good looking player, if watching video in a tiny Flash box in your browser is your thing

What's interesting is that they're saying their big concern is over piracy, yet they promise a version that will work on Macs and iPods sometime in the future. My bet is that this will fail spectacularly before they ever get around to the magic of making

It's like watching an airplane crash in to a train wreck. Go, Zucker, go!

Ars really nails the crux of the NBC/Amazon deal - basically, it boils down to much more restrictive DRM and the ability to bundle crappy content with the (increasingly rare) good stuff

NBC wanted $4.99 a show, inspiring a well deserved W.T.F? I'm sure whatever craptacular solution the big old brains working for Zucker are sure to hastily deliver will suck royally, driving folks like me to torrent the next season of Battlestar Galactica.

And just how in the hell am I supposed to watch The Office? This is so goddamn dumb I don't even know where to begin.

Man, that's weird. Seriously, this feels like the brainchild some TV person who doesn't understand RSS. Not that there's anything wrong with being a TV person - I love TV people! Especially you.

This is retarded and shows exactly why TV people just don't get the web. IT'S NOT FUCKING TV, YOU MORONS, STOP TRYING TO MAKE IT JUST LIKE YOUR PRECIOUS IDIOT BOXES!

Launches the same day as the zune. Yay, synergy

2.0 means "congratulations, you're redundant!"

MSNBC East (Cable and dotcom) moving to 30 Rock, consolidation of news divisions (CNBC, MSNBC, NBC News), layoffs. Ride the wave!

"We have come to treat the Internet like a public utility... our lives are predicated on computers... until it all crashes down around us."

Including lots of old Hitchcock, the Office and Battlestar Gallactica - woo! It's also quite interesting considering NBC's close ties to another certain giant online network (*cough* MSN *cough*)