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Remixing News Video On The Fly
slashdotbs writes "The New York Times writes that 'A handful of Web users are programming their own virtual TV newscasts and eclectic collections of video clips using a free media-sharing tool called Webjay. The site makes it easy to build, share and watch playlists of audio and video links culled from around the Internet.' Although the site was originally intended to be used for audio playlist creation, it turns out that it can also be used effectively for video. In addition, you can create "video mashups", where you blend audio and video together to present a new message. By using simple smil commands in a URL, a CBS news report can become a short clip of George Bush saying "I can't do my job" (the third track on this playlist)."
I think I can smell a new DRM version from Real coming out. The last time people started ripping "protected" content (the cnn footage is supposed to be subscription only) Real started suing and came out with new software. With Microsoft's Digital Rights Management quickly becoming popular amongst content publishers, I have a feeling Real corporate will want some heads to roll if this gets out of control.
After F9/11, I just don't trust anyone with $ any more.
Do you trust Michael Moore?
>non-scoop having newspaper writer who doesn't do his research...
And this differs from any of the others, how?
By using simple smil commands in a URL, a CBS news report can become a short clip of George Bush saying "I can't do my job"
I'd like to rate this one -1, Flamebait.
At least the big news companies can be sued for libel/slander if caught outright lying. Small indy shops can get away with fabricating things outright.
Note I mean lying, not just major bias, like foxnews.
Well, you can pirate broadcast frequencies over radio stations with IPods, you can now easily mash video streams together, remixing audio is already old-hat. Voice modulation software is now becoming available on the net. Give it another five-to-ten years, there will be an easy way to pirate broadcast into TV networks.
Imagine the havoc one could create by doing a real professional looking and sounding Audio-Video mix to, say the 5 O'Clock News in your local area, then pirate the station it broadcasts on right at the time the program normally begins. So what happens if they decide it would be a real funny joke to have a video-hack of the President announcing nuclear war, followed by the newscastors reacting in turn? What kind of damage from panic would result? Something tells me this isn't too far off, and frankly, I'm a bit concerned.
-The Libra
"Please be patient--The future will begin momentarily."
What's funny is the /. editors essentially ASK for posts like this by posting a story that says "By using simple smil commands in a URL, a CBS news report can become a short clip of George Bush saying "I can't do my job" (the third track on this playlist)".
Then they mod everyone who points out the (obvious) funny "flamebait". More or less a trap that allows The Mods to feel superior.
"Who are in control, they are not in control of anything - they don't even control themselves!" - Glen Beck
I don't believe slashdot anymore, especially with a cheapshot being thrown in every chance possible, or liberal bias flowing out of the ears. What ever happened to the good old tech talk? I want the old Slashdot back, Liberal free
No, I agree with the parent. No one in a position of power tells the entire truth. They use the facts that support their position and ignore the rest.
Sorry, teleporters just kill you and then make a copy. A perfect, soul-less copy.
that's a "documentary"? if you can call it that. Holy War! I call "not it." Oh, and shame on slashdot for putting a link to a video site IN the article, experiencing meltdown in 5..4..3..2..1.....
*laugh* Michael Moore has benefited monetarily a huge amount, not only with the profits from this film, but for his future works as well.
Not to mention the amount of money the film generated for any anti-Bush group as well as those voting *because of* the film, as they will be voting that which benefits them the most--a good part of that equation will include money.
Fact of the matter is, the US is a rich country and a lot of people have money, even people you do not suspect. Pointedly selecting a few idiots and then making a sweeping comment that all with money are untrustworthy is as idiotic as saying all black men will mug you if they have the chance. If there are viable alternatives, the US *people* will likly find them; maybe not as fast as you like, but we tend to right the ship. Frankly, if people will money wanted power, they wouldn't be still in the US.
Learn to judge your own prejudices.
"What ever happened to the good old tech talk? I want the old Slashdot back, Liberal free"
I imagine you can thank people like George W., Rush and Bill O'Reilly for this. They've done something truly amazing. They took a nation that hasn't really cared about politics in 30 years and ignited passion about it in nearly every dusty corner including the geek denizens of Slashdot. Any place there is the remotest angle for political sparring people are taking it, lighting incendiary devices and running with them.
If George W. had lived up to his campaign rhetoric as a "Uniter, not a divider" and a "Compassionate Conservative" America's new right wing, if they'd played it cool, could have led a sleep walking America in to an eternity dominated by their twisted new conservativism, underpinned by the intolerance of America's ultra religious right. George, Rush and Bill were crafty successful in initially igniting the passions of only the new conservative extremists. If they'd managed to keep it that way the would have won a lasting victory with their little brown shirted army. But no they went just a little to far and one day the rest of the world woke up and realized what was happening.
George W. did his nation a great service. He woke up every radical leftist, weak kneed liberal, indifferent independent and true conservative in to forming an increasingly unified front who are waiting with unprecedented anxiety to seem if he will go down in flames in November. It warms my heart to see true conservatives hating him as much as liberals, thanks to the damage he's done to the reputation of conservatism, remember when it used to be about balanced budgets, no foreign adventuring, small government and civil liberties?
So today you have people more energized against an American President than even Richard Nixon. The end result, even here on Slashdot you can't escape massive outbreaks of vicious, polarized mud slinging.
Some may bemoan it as you just did, others like me think its fascinating and not something anyone would have imagined possible after seeing America head down a road of political indifference for 30 years as they were mesmerized by the tube.
The Democrats could have made November a slam dunk against Little George but no, just to make it a nail biting cliff hanger all the way through they nominated a candidate so bad no one wants to vote for him even when he's up against the most dangerous president the U.S. has probably had in its history. Throw in electronic voting machines, terrorist threats (real, imagined and fabricated), the Patriot act, and Jeb Bush aiming for a sequel in Florida and you have a political spectacle better than any novelist could have imagined.
@de_machina
Until lions have their own historians tales of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.
When modding "Informative", please make sure it both has a source and IS actually informative.
Exactly, He twists the truth to his own needs as much as the next man, but at least he admits to it.
Sorry, teleporters just kill you and then make a copy. A perfect, soul-less copy.
The music companies were against it because it was a clandestine hit that didn't need the "Record Industry" to flourish. I'm no fan of rap "music", but there is something tangibly sexy about the Grey Album's fusion of sound and speech, something that is sadly missing from modern music because the latter is made with a cookie-cutter approach: "Hire an icon, make him look 'street', steal 20-year-old loop, add boobies and ADVERTISE!". The Grey Album, on the other hand, was produced by someone who knows and appreciates music very intimately.
I'm a music freak too, and I find myself questioning the producer's work on recent pop singles. Today's music sounds like they didn't give a fark about the released product. It's unfinished, unpolished, but it sells like hotcakes thanks to the media and these ever-more-retarded teens.
-Billco, Fnarg.com