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YouTube Co-founder Calls For Global Access To TV Online
An anonymous reader writes "YouTube co-founder Chad Hurley says internet users should be able to legitimately watch content from anywhere in the world at any time. He says the days of national TV networks controlling the global online rights to shows has to end. 'I think the business models are breaking down and the companies that are going to win in this new world are the ones that make it as easy as possible for the consumers to consume the content wherever and whenever they want.' Hurley also says YouTube will be bidding for more online live sports."
That is the only reason I pick up cable part of the year anymore.....American College Football.
Finally, I will be able to drop cable entirely.
This is just another chapter in the old 'information wants to be free' refrain. And while I'm down with that, I don't think there is much more to be done, as I've lived on three continents, and found it trivial to find broadcast content from other regions around the world if I just made the effort. Now if they are talking about bundling it all up and creating a delivery service, let me remind how expensive and controlled cable can be in the US, so if I had my druthers, I'd be more inclined to again bring things together on my own, say in the spirit of the guy in Cuba that used a pringles can to pick up CNN from the States, back in the day :)
And really....there is a long list of countries that have strong feelings about what content is available to their citizens, from Singapore (small) to China (big). A full-on WeAreTheWorld channel isn't going to cut it, I think.
If Google can pull this off (and no doubt they will), everyone will be like "TAKE MY MONEY PLEASE"
That alone would be enough to convince me to switch to Google-everything. ATM, streaming sports semi-legally from other countries is a complete joke,
Google certainly have the size, finance and power to do it; now it's a question of will.
For the same reason you are paying taxes in general I guess, a form of altruism that keeps things civilized.
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Combine the natural outcome of these stories... Look at the Xbox One debacle. It ain't pretty...
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Free information is the death of all culture. It leads to the homogenization of society. It is why people are complaining about the stagnation of the arts since about 1995, when the internet started to become widespread. You ever notice how people's sense of style now is the same as back in 1993? Compare this to the massive stylistic shifts between 1953 to 1963 to 1973 to 1983 to 1993. Each decade was vastly different from the decade before.
This cultural & artistic stagnation is because information is free. It is because everyone in the world has access to the same information, which is not good.
Acquiring information should have a cost associated with it. Before the internet, you actually had to find a record shop to find obscure bands, costing time and effort. Now, there is no cost associated with this horrible consumer lifestyle associated with free information, and everyone has access to the same information, giving privilege to none.
People should NOT have the same information as everyone else. People should be divided and separated, as this inequality is what causes art to happen.
Life should be unfair. It is better that way.
He says the days of national TV networks controlling the global online rights to shows has to end.
Historically. this gives the big budget Hollywood production dominance in all markets. It is why New Zealand becomes a standing stage set and nothing more. It is why governments impose domestic content requirements on theaters, broadcasters, and so on.
---- and why Disney is intent on calming the waters by green-lighting a multi-cultural Pacific Rim anime Big Hero 6
Copyright is already coercion of the public. If YouTube is asking for coercion, it's asking governments to replace coercion that serves incumbent middlemen with coercion that serves the public.
users should be able to legitimately watch content from anywhere in the world at any time
Does "anywhere" include on a city bus? What I'd like to be officially able to do is queue up some 1- to 10-minute videos to watch, download them (possibly using encryption) while connected to the Internet, disconnect, and watch them. Even if offline viewing were restricted to 360p, that'd still be better than having to pay hundreds of USD per year for cellular Internet for my Nexus 7 tablet.
I'd wager that every sports fan in the world wants this, and Google is best positioned to provide it with the infrastructure they already have in place--they have live streamed events and premium channels on Youtube already. Of course it's a business move, but that doesn't preclude it from being in the best interests of consumers either.
I agree about normal entertainment, but not the "you can't watch this Olympics stream in your country" stuff.
One of the reasons I stopped with Hulu was because they went from one 15s commercial every 10 minutes to 6 30 second commercial blocks all the time, just as if it were broadcast TV.
Well, I can go watch it on my tivo thanks, and skip all that crap.
If YouTube goes past one skippable 30s commercial, or one 15s non-skippable, I'm outta there, too.
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And both of them are horseshit.
1) The entrenched interests have invested too much in existing legacy infrastructure to let this happen. Sure, they've already seen the returns hundreds or thousands of times over, but if they can wring it out longer, they will. It will take the majority of consumers demanding IP-based TV for this to change.
2) Internet connectivity is mostly shit in North America. Either it's high bandwidth with a deprecating cap, or shitty bandwidth with no cap. Until telcos are reined in by regulation, forcing them to build out the fiber infrastructure for which billions in tax dollars were earmarked and quit this rent-seeking business model, we aren't going to have the sort of connectivity we need for universal IPTV. And let's not forget how a number of ISPs muddy the waters by running their own streaming services; again, due to piss-poor regulation.
What Chad means is that he envisions a world where people only watch shitty Youtube videos all day, and Google gets a cut from showing an obligatory advert at the start.
Quality programming is difficult to make, and distributing it efficiently (as opposed to the "fuck you and build a bigger pipe!" unicast method of distribution Youtube uses) is also a challenge. Showing crap worldwide when all you have to do is to build a streaming server, adorn it with sponsorship, and take advantage of having been early to the party... well, that's a job for the geniuses at Google to have their brainpower wasted on.
All I want is to watch Steelers games, but the only legal recourse is to buy DirecTV THEN buy Sunday Ticket which will run you $1200/year. All that for teh 10 or so games that won't be nationally televised.
I swear to God...I swear to God! That is NOT how you treat your human!
The argument is that it would serve the public to replace the middleman that that geodiscriminates with the middleman that does not.
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The ignorant slashdot troll telling someone else how to use their time constructively, cute.
Perhaps that commute is the one time of day he fills with entertainment, and the rest of the time he is doing great things?
What if the commute is his only time to unwind and he's trying to fill it in with 10 minutes of something he couldn't otherwise fit into his schedule?
Your comment is insanely short sighted. You're in such a hurry to knock him, you completely ignore the possibility that he may do exactly what you speak of the rest of his time.
Hell, these videos could be segments Cosmos episodes, what then? Is that not enlightening yourself?
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