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 [...]

Stream the Olympics Over Your Own VPN

A little technical knowledge will go a long way. Our friends at BusinessInsider.com walk you through the steps of setting up your own Virtual Private Network (VPN) to get around that pesky Olympic Firewall that is preventing us from enjoying the events live.

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 [...]

Nalts Loves Our Tweets

I had the pleasure of meeting Kevin Nalty, aka Nalts, of WillVideoForFood.com, one of my favorite blogs about online video. And as it turned out, he likes us too!

Over a post conference drink, he shared his blog post, declaring me the winner of the “best Tweets from the OMMA Video conference” award. Woohoo!!

Great [...]