By Corey Kronengold, March 3rd, 2010
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 [...]
By Corey Kronengold, December 22nd, 2009
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 [...]
By Corey Kronengold, December 9th, 2009
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 [...]
By Corey Kronengold, July 11th, 2009
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 [...]
By Corey Kronengold, August 28th, 2008
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 [...]