Livestream Issues Open Letter on Piracy

Today, live streaming provider Livestream issued an open letter on their blog, announcing their Zero Tolerance policy on piracy.

In a nut shell, they’ve got a zero tolerance policy on piracy. The open letter, which we obviously support wholeheartedly, was written by CEO Max Hoat to inform their customers, advertisers, partners, policy makers and competitors [...]

Maddow Segment on Online Videos

Fans of Rachel Maddow know that she’s a fan of quirky web video. Tonight she wrapped up her show with a segment on the lip-sync video battle between two high schools in Washington.

Hopefully the record labels will let these kids have their fun. On Dec. 5th, Ryan Lawler at NewTeeVee reported:

A few years [...]

Vevo Shmevo

Why am I such a hater this week? I feel good, got plenty of sleep, had a great weekend after a 3 night run of Phish at Madison Square Garden. So why am I so down on two of the online video industry’s biggest launches? Is it just because I didn’t go to either of [...]

UFC 100: A Tale of Two Streams (and one price)

Live right now is the UFC 100, availble on pay-per-view from your cable provider as well as via live stream from UFC.com.

Interestingly, UFC is charging $44.99 for both the 300 kbps stream and the 600 kbps. What gives? Is anyone buying the lower bitrate stream? If you can’t support a broadband stream, you should [...]

Court Holds Up DMCA for Veoh

Too much legalese to get in to. Bottom line: Court says that Veoh – and presumably other video sharing sites – are protected under the DMCA provided they make a reasonable attempt to remove copyrighted content.

Peter Kafka at Alley Insider has the deets and the full court doc.

Interesting to Peter, and to me [...]