YouTube Begins Live Streaming Trials

An anonymous reader writes "YouTube is running a (very) brief trial of their new live streaming platform: 'This new platform integrates live streaming directly into YouTube channels; all broadcasters need is a webcam or external USB/FireWire camera. Included in the test is a "Live Comments" module which lets you engage with the broadcaster and the broader YouTube community. For the purpose of the trial, this offering will only be available today and tomorrow. Based on the results of this initial test, we'll evaluate rolling out the platform more broadly to our partners worldwide.'"

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Re:As I was telling a policeman I know last week

[commodore64_love]

I like that idea. Maybe it would stop police abuses if they knew you were streaming their public acts to your friends, or to your hard drive.

Of course police always ask you to turn-off the camera, because then they can beat the sdhit otu fo you. As they did to a Baptist pastor in southern Arizona. His crime? They accused him of having marijuana and he said "That's nuts," so they drug him out of his car and beat him into a bloody mess. Naturally they found NO marijuana or any other contraband, so they charged him with disorderly condust (apparently sitting behind a steering wheel is "disorderly").

Man am I bitter. But it pisses me off the way police act. Just look how they treated Professor Gates - arresting a man out of his own home and property even though he'd done nothing wrong.