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YouTube Explains Where HTML5 Video Fails
awjr writes "YouTube have pretty much come down on the side of Flash having major issues with the lack of features that the HTML5 <video> tag has and may never have."
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I don't think you can solve this one by "holding it differently".
the "choice is easy to make" because *you* arent creating content. only consuming it.
It's next to impossible to create an original work nowadays, as incumbent copyright owners are likely to sue over the slightest accidental sample.
The above comment comes to you courtesy of the Dead Horse Dept. of the Irrelevancy Institute. (Maybe next time you should just let the adults talk)
Not to mention all of culture is cumulative.
It's alright. He was just trying to karma whore by being a typical slashdot pedantic fuckass.
He knew it was basically wav vs mp3, but wanted to make himself sound smart by bringing up obscure shit and making it sound like it was not obscure and just as heavily used as wav and mp3. He probably lacks a certain amount of self-worth.
Your response to that was informative and helpful.
Not true at all, unless you define "original" in such a way that it means no original work has ever been created, which would just make it meaningless instead.
Successful creators often get sued by less successful opportunists, though, but that's got more to do with the U.S. legal system being played like the lottery.
Successful creators often get sued by less successful opportunists, though, but that's got more to do with the U.S. legal system being played like the lottery.
Yeah, that's what I meant. George Harrison wrote and performed "My Sweet Lord" and then lost a million-dollar lawsuit over it. How do I either A. prevent myself from accidentally sampling an existing work or B. minimize the damage if I do end up accidentally sampling an existing work?
How do you "accidentally" sample something ? It's like saying "I accidentally ate a cake", or "I accidentally drove to work".
You either sample, or you don't ... there's no "accidentally' about it.