Hi - I'm a member of the ACTLab TV team and I wanted to respond to the issues you brought up concerning competition and legality. As for the former issue, we're not about that. We also don't charge a cent. Not only can you watch our television station for free, we show you how to make your own for relatively the same amount. We are a non-profit organization, and we are funded by the money we have in our pockets (spent the last of it on a Slurpee about an hour ago). The only other means of financing the station is through donations. Even the merch that we sell "at cost," we don't make a cent from that - unless you choose to buy an item and donate. And as for the legality issue, what we will show will be completely legit. We will not show copyrighted material, nothing operating under the RIAA or the MPAA. All of it will be original, independent, and public domain. Oh yeah, and AWESOME.
Hi. I'm a member of the ACTLab TV team and I'd like to address something in your post. First of all, archive.org is a repository of content, whereas we are a television station. We do already have lots of content that we will soon be streaming 24 hours a day. In addition, we will be creating our own content, accepting submitted content, and streaming content from other sources (for example, the Internet Archive Moving Images Collection). Another major difference is that you will not have to go looking for video, like you do at archive.org. We will be sorting through and organizing all our material into themed blocks and programs, and you will be able to watch them continuously in a high-quality stream. The purpose of our player is that it allows for video distribution to scale for a larger number of users while using drastically less bandwidth. This will make it possible for everyone to run their own Internet TV station, whereas it would be out of reach for most people to run their own Internet Archive.
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Hi - I'm a member of the ACTLab TV team and I wanted to respond to the issues you brought up concerning competition and legality.
As for the former issue, we're not about that. We also don't charge a cent. Not only can you watch our television station for free, we show you how to make your own for relatively the same amount. We are a non-profit organization, and we are funded by the money we have in our pockets (spent the last of it on a Slurpee about an hour ago). The only other means of financing the station is through donations. Even the merch that we sell "at cost," we don't make a cent from that - unless you choose to buy an item and donate. And as for the legality issue, what we will show will be completely legit. We will not show copyrighted material, nothing operating under the RIAA or the MPAA. All of it will be original, independent, and public domain. Oh yeah, and AWESOME.
Hi. I'm a member of the ACTLab TV team and I'd like to address something in your post. First of all, archive.org is a repository of content, whereas we are a television station. We do already have lots of content that we will soon be streaming 24 hours a day. In addition, we will be creating our own content, accepting submitted content, and streaming content from other sources (for example, the Internet Archive Moving Images Collection). Another major difference is that you will not have to go looking for video, like you do at archive.org. We will be sorting through and organizing all our material into themed blocks and programs, and you will be able to watch them continuously in a high-quality stream. The purpose of our player is that it allows for video distribution to scale for a larger number of users while using drastically less bandwidth. This will make it possible for everyone to run their own Internet TV station, whereas it would be out of reach for most people to run their own Internet Archive.