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Posted by CmdrTaco on from the information-routes-around-problems dept.

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.

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  1. This Ain't Yer Gran's PVR by ackthpt · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.

    You can already get football from a variety of sites, at least one is hosted in China, no idea where the others are, you just have to put up with the commentary. Further, by Fox Soccer Channel and PPV you have access to more matches than you do in the UK, where IIRC 4 matches are televised out of the EPL schedule each match day. If you're wishing to watch Everton v Sunderland, or some other low end of the table match, you are out of luck.

    It also raises yet another battlefront the content owners will need to contend with in the upcoming years.

    Oh, yes. Expect all digital signals to have some encoded regionality which is intended to put the content owner in command. The major problem with these methods is they effectively kill foreign markets, because there's usually no distributor or the distributor asks too high a cost for content, which ultimately drives piracy.

    Maybe some day they'll learn that you can maximize profit by maximizing access.

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    1. Re:This Ain't Yer Gran's PVR by ackthpt · · Score: 5, Funny
      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.

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  2. Who is the author of these Web 2.0 acronyms? by Lost+Found · · Score: 5, Funny

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

  3. overhyped? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    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

  4. Re:Advertisers wont care by Krach42 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Because, same as I would be willing to watch German ads on TV just to get German TV, there is little point for the advertisers to advertise something that I can't buy here in the US. I mean, it works fine for big companies that sell under the same name there and here, like Lexus, Mercedes, BMW, and T-Mobile, but what about Beer commercials?

    And what about standards of decency? I saw naked boobies on a German television program... WON'T YOU THINK ABOUT THE CHILDREN?!

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  5. Wrong by Bogtha · · Score: 5, Funny

    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?

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