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The newspapers in Chile show a young college student in T-shirt and khakis being led away from his college campus in handcuffs by police officers. And now, all over Latin America, the story appears to be the long arm of HBO - which the newspapers have to remind their readers is an American cable TV film producer - reaching into their young people's dormitories and extracting suspected pirates. Is anyone safe, some publications portray, from the tentacles of American content providers?

Chile has a cybercrime brigade, and one reason is to demonstrate the country's commitment to the terms of a free-trade agreement (FTA) signed with the United States in 2004. Chile also has - up until yesterday, that is - a powerhouse film site called Cuevana.tv that somehow showed first-run movies, including some produced by HBO, for free. One reason, it would appear, is so one Cristian Alvarez Rojas - the student in the khakis and handcuffs - could demonstrate a loophole in his country's latest intellectual property law, which took effect in the spring of 2010.

The rumor mill surrounding Apple's movie streaming cloud service, believed to be called "Replay," is heating up. It is not unlike any other Apple rumors that make their way around the Internet - it is coming, it is not coming, what will it look like when it comes? The latest on the rumor line is that Replay is not coming any time soon. It is not a matter of technology. Apple's iCloud and data centers can handle movie streaming. With everything in the premium content business, it is about licenses.

CNET has an in-depth report on what is happening between Apple and the major movie studios. Essentially it comes down to negotiating rights and who controls them. For half of the major studios (Warner Bros., Fox and Universal) that would be HBO owned by Time Warner. HBO has the legacy "first-mover" advantage because of its longstanding relationships with the studios and cable operators. Hence, HBO holds the keys for Apple or any other would-be cloud streaming services, from bringing a flood of streaming movies to the masses.

Netflix and DreamWorks Animation are reportedly in negotiations to bring DreamWorks movies to the video streaming service. In and off itself, that is not major news. Netflix makes and breaks content distribution agreements with different partners all the time. Yet, the DreamWorks deal would directly affect the pocketbook of one of Netflix's major competitors - HBO.

DreamWorks and HBO have a content-distribution agreement that runs through 2014, according to Bloomberg. Yet, the Hollywood Reporter says that HBO is willing to let DreamWorks out of the deal two years early, making the studios' animated movies available to Netflix in 2013. It would be a bit of a coup for Netflix to be the go-to movie distributor over the likes of HBO and a signal both the mid-term future of content streaming.

Social check-in app GetGlue has been making significant strides in the mobile space lately with the release of an Android app following success on the iPhone earlier this summer. Today, the popular app which allows users to check-in, rate and like things like movies, TV shows and music, has come to everyone's favorite "lean back" entertainment device, the iPad. With some added functionality (and more sticker deals to boot), GetGlue hopes its iPad app will become your couch surfing app of choice for "second screen" media interaction.

Time Warner needs to work on its internal memo mechanism, because apparently someone at either HBO or Time Warner's Road Runner broadband service didn't get one last week. At the same time that Time Warner is busy planning a trial of usage based billing for web access in an attempt to stem network congestion resulting from the growing popularity of online video, HBO is also readying trials of its streaming video and movie service. Huh?