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Holmes Wilson Interviewed About Open-Source TV
flippy writes "Videoblogger Steve Garfield has a new interview with Holmes Wilson of Downhill Battle and Participatory Culture Foundation, talking about the F/OSS internet TV platform that Participatory Culture is developing and their recently released video publishing package, Broadcast Machine. Their RSS / BitTorrent / VLC application ("TiVo for the Internet") is expected to be released for Mac and Windows by the end of this month."
Just wait until the MPAA decides that this is somehow illegal, and tries to sue them out of business.
- Just because we CAN do a thing, does not mean we SHOULD do that thing.
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video.google.com makes this service irrelevant?
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Everyone must still be on the Apple thread.
So I wonder whether the remote possibility that we'll ever get useful IP multicast for video streams is going to be forgotten now that we have Bittorrent. I mean, at least BT is here and useful now.
We now have the technology to combine Slashdot and Naked News together. I may never leave my desk again.
I love slashdot. comparing this service to video.google.com or whatever...there should be a time-delay before posting is allowed.
The first and obvious benefit of this service is that it lays a very solid groundwork for any future public defense of the bit torrent protocol. However, my initial happy world is crushed as I wonder what limits will be used to prevent us from basically hijacking cable programming to rebroadcast to the world free of charge?
Quick, name the organization that is going to join the *IAA fight against piracy!
I am tempted to setup their Broadcast Machine on the company intranet, for the videos we share internally (I am at a remote location, with a T1 connection to the most viewers, who are all interconnected 100MB links)
My question is, with the now torrentless operation of azures, protecting just the torrent file on the intranet, does the video immediatly become world accessable with the first viewing by any client, even if that is inside our VPN (with internet access)
I know that it's a term, but it doesn't make much sense like that. Perhaps "Peer-produced Television"?
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you guys cant even support PBS, so iam sure this will be no different.
*sigh* What's the difference any more...
Who ever is doing modding today is bizarre. This is the third time today where the 2'nd or third posting of the article is modded redundant. It may be off topic, it may be something flamebait, it may be a number of things, but it is not redundant. That is somebody who is after several ppl or simply mods down for no reason at all.
I prefer the "u" in honour as it seems to be missing these days.
Taking this model to the Internet, using technologies such as that mentioned in the article, will definitely enable much broader distribution channels (but not necessarily larger audiences).
Now, of course, technology is just part of the solution. The real meat is in the content (same applies to podcasting, of course).
One final thought - how long before we see Nielsen ratings for online programming? (as well as Arbitron ratings for podcasts?)
Heyyyy, wassup, Holmes?
"I would say that 99 per cent of what my father has written about his own life is false." - L. Ron Hubbard Jr.
Do not call it "Open TV". Call it something else, even "Open Video Broadcasting System, that is in no way similar to TV".
Because if they claim they have a TV system, soon the FCC will get regulation rights over it. It has just happened ot the guys of IP telephony...
My 2 cents.
this was a long time coming, hopefully this is "killer ap" enough to enter the mainstream..
Either that, or they should bring it back to the way it used to be, so that the rights of the public and the rights of the copyright holders are balanced. Things should go out of copyright after a good fifteen years or so.
There are many reasons this is so. There have been many books published at the turn of the 1900's that you can buy today, brand new. Books with ingenius information about how various mechanical systems were constructed, etc. This information would be all but missing if these books never went out of copyright, because it would be illegal to reprint them today without the permission of someone who is long dead or a publishing company that long got bought out, shut down, or simply disappeared.
Mechanical books are not the reason. The reason is that too much valuable information gets lost when copyright extends for practically forever. Games for the Atari that nobody cares about anymore and nobody makes a profit off anymore; Software made in the '70's or '80's that some companies are held hostage to because it would literally cost millions to replace them, but when they break down it costs ridiculous quantities in terms of lost uptime, lost production, etc.; books published in the same era that are out of print and impossible to find, yet you wish you could find a copy; television series from the same era that people would like to duplicate, sell, watch, enjoy, etc., but cannot legally do so, while the studio stands to make nothing from it because it has absolutely no interest in doing so... Many things like this that do exist and happen on a daily basis.
It's like this: You have tons of perfectly good food, but you don't want to eat it. So you're going to put it in the trash. Some hungry person comes up and begs for the food. You refuse to give it to him, but since you don't want it, you throw it away anyway. If you give it to him instead of throwing it away, you gain and lose nothing, but the hungry man eats. If you throw it away, you still gain and lose nothing, but the hungry man goes hungry. You don't gain or lose anything either way, but the overall economy benefits, and value is created. Therefore, copyright should expire after a reasonable (and SHORT, meaning 10 to 15 years MAX) amount of time, so that existing information can continue to generate value for the economy. Otherwise, the information is lost, forgotten, deleted, or otherwise destroyed, whether deliberately or simply as a matter of elapsing time, and what could definitely benefit a later generation will be forgotten. Imagine if the classic literature were lost in the same way that out-of-print literature from the 80's is going to be. Yes, you could say it's worthless, and that's why it's out of print. But people thought Moby Dick was worthless until years after the author's death! Copyright is a short sighted thing. It should be balanced.
Either that, or abolished altogether.
Would this mean as i am buffering the video, that i am infringing on a copyright seeing as my hdd is recording it for however many seconds?
There are already sites that will host your video for free, and cheap commercial hosting services that don't charge for bandwidth. If your stuff has any merit at all, it's not hard to get it hosted. Unless it's porno, you probably won't get that many viewers. The Internet Archive has vast amounts of video, but few people watch it.
Bittorrent only works well because many of the users are pirating the same stuff, yielding economies of scale.
It would be great if there were a video version of blogging software. Something that would make it possible for non-techies to create their own video-blog with just a digital camera and access to the Internet. Most of the material would be drivel; but the stuff that would be good would be very good indeed.
You can get the same functionality out of this software as wordpress or any other blogging software.
My definition of a program call Broadcasting machine would be something that includes: Video editing, Live video switches/faders and broadcast servers
Thats what i esentially what i need need with our own project http://www.freematrix.us/