NEW YORK (TheWrap.com) - Chill, a social video platform with close to 20 million users, has launched Chill Direct, a new store for creatives like Maria Bamford and Michael Urie to sell their movies, specials and documentaries directly to fans. Comedian Louis C.K. sent shockwaves through the entertainment industry this summer by selling a comedy special directly online rather than making a distribution deal with a television network or online service. He made millions, and various others have followed suit, including Jim Gaffigan and Aziz Ansari. ...

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The Internet knows a lot about you, maybe too much. So how do you clean up your online reputation and get control of your image to reflect who you are now — or how you want a prospective employer to perceive you? A study from Microsoft Research indicates that 70% of online recruiters have nixed [...]

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Internet voting for American citizens is exceedingly dangerous.

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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Ever turn on your television to find the same tired line-up of last season's movies available to watch? Or been disappointed about how it takes weeks for a movie to arrive on-demand? While cinemas have always enjoyed privileged status when it comes to being the first to screen movies, the European Commission wants to level the playing field for digital outlets by encouraging the same day release of films across platforms. ...

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Activision is bringing its popular "Call of Duty" series to China as a free online game.

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The European parliament on Wednesday threw out a controversial global pact to battle counterfeiting and online piracy, quashing any EU ratification and possibly killing it for good.

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If you've ever lied to a potential Internet date about your weight, texted your spouse that you were someplace you weren't or emailed mom to say how much you love that ugly new sweater, you were breaking the law if you did it in Rhode Island.

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There are worse ways to spend your weekend than watching award-winning short films in your browser. Thanks to the 2012 Vimeo Awards, you can pray for rain and spend this weekend doing just that.

The second Vimeo Awards show in history took place at New York's Skirball Center for the Performing Arts on June 7. It's a not-quite-annual awards show; the previous Vimeo Awards presentation took place 18 months ago, in 2010. If you couldn't make it to either of those shows, don't worry. The good thing about awards shows presented by video-sharing sites is that all the winning videos are posted online.

For this year's awards, an all-star group of judges that included actor James Franco, director Edward Wright (Scott Pilgrim vs. the World), and comedian Aziz Ansari picked through more than 14,500 entries in 13 award categories. Each category winner was awarded a $5,000 grant toward their next film project, and the Grand Prize winner--which went to the Everynone team for its film Symmetry--received a $25,000 grant. (You can view Everynone's acceptance speech on Vimeo here.)

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