Up Next... Skypecasting

Davis Freeberg submitted linkage to a short story talking about Skypecasting Television. Essentially using Skype and Yahoo Messenger to rebroadcast video to the internet. While it isn't a PVR, it circumvents the regionally oriented programming that prevents the UK from watching our "Football" or us from getting Dr Who. It also raises yet another battlefront the content owners will need to contend with in the upcoming years.

Comments

Who is the author of these Web 2.0 acronyms?

[Lost Found]

I'd like to arrange for their prompt and bloody assassination.

overhyped?

[Anonymous Coward]

Bah, give it six months and it'll just be lots of fat, sweaty nerds talking about other fat, sweaty nerds.

So, no different from podcasting then.

/ zing

Re:This Ain't Yer Gran's PVR

[ackthpt]

No no no no... he means AMERICAN football in the UK.

Sod. Who would watch that when you have Chelsea at Arsenal this Sunday?

funny that american football is called that, the ball rarely makes contact with the foot.

Wrong

[Bogtha]

t circumvents the regionally oriented programming that prevents the UK from watching our "Football"

I think you'll find that it's good taste that prevents the UK from watching American football :). It's not a real sport if you have to stop for a rest every few seconds, and it must be a game for girly men if you need to wear armour! It's basically rubgy with padding and resting, isn't it?

Forgive me Lord for what I am about to do

[OzPeter]

(I appologise in advance for twisting your words around .. but I couldn't resist :-)

"How can one get so emotionally attached to a sports team that they will get in mob fights with fans of another team? Granted it's usually a minority that partake in hooliganism, but it seems to happen fairly often (especially in Latin American countries); it almost never happens here in the states."

Substitute:
ideology for sports team
fans for citizens
team for country
hooliganism for war

And you get:

"How can one get so emotionally attached to an ideology that they will get in mob fights with citizens of another country? Granted it's usually a minority that partake in war, but it seems to happen fairly often (especially in Latin American countries); it almost never happens here in the states. " :D

Names

[sloths]

Fishing channel=Rodcasting
Fitness channel=Bodcasting
Religious channel=Godcasting
Grass channel=Sodcasting
Plumbing channel=Pipecasting
Dental channel=Bitecasting