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6 months ago
in Seesmic: Still don’t really get it on Mathew's comments
Mat I see the value in Quick and mogulus and evelyn ustream because they provide tools that put live broadcasting in the hands of the Masses .
Maybe the problem is your still thinking with your OLD MEDIA head and not thinking forward enough .Im 36 and can see the value in these things
Seemsmic is pretty much niche product but it has a crazy amount of European users .Not that I have a need for Seesmic and I think that's the Issue lies is that you have to have a need to see the products vale .Seesmic might be great if you have friends or family overseas that a a video message is more personal than an email.An I can see the value you in that especially across different time zones,
Maybe the problem is your still thinking with your OLD MEDIA head and not thinking forward enough .Im 36 and can see the value in these things
Seemsmic is pretty much niche product but it has a crazy amount of European users .Not that I have a need for Seesmic and I think that's the Issue lies is that you have to have a need to see the products vale .Seesmic might be great if you have friends or family overseas that a a video message is more personal than an email.An I can see the value you in that especially across different time zones,
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7 months ago
in Yahoo! Gets Behind Rhapsody on A VC
I think this has more to do with Yahoo not wanting to deal with the hassle of DRM anymore .
Ian Rogers Yahoo Musics General Manager has been a very outspoken critic of DRM in the past and DRM has also eaten into Yahoo Music's operational costs with DRM being the cause of most of Yahoo Music's customer service issues .
Ian Rogers wrote on his Personal Blog about his thoughts on DRM last year
http://www.fistfulayen.com/blog/?p=127
Also the acquisition of Foxytunes demonstrates that Yahoo doesn't wast to develop a stand alone media player anymore and is more interested in web based services ,
Ian Rogers Yahoo Musics General Manager has been a very outspoken critic of DRM in the past and DRM has also eaten into Yahoo Music's operational costs with DRM being the cause of most of Yahoo Music's customer service issues .
Ian Rogers wrote on his Personal Blog about his thoughts on DRM last year
http://www.fistfulayen.com/blog/?p=127
Also the acquisition of Foxytunes demonstrates that Yahoo doesn't wast to develop a stand alone media player anymore and is more interested in web based services ,
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siscokid422
Speaking of Ian Rogers, I wonder how this move will impact him. I am a big fan of his forward-thinking approach...
7 months ago
in The Pirate Bay: Is it illegal to point? on Mathew's comments
the same can be said for the Qtrax Browser ...the Songbird browser they use scrapes every web page it visits for audio files and automatically pops up a very easy to use download manger .
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mathewi
That's a good point, Matt -- Songbird arguably engages in contributory
infringement as well, at least as much as Songza or Seeqpod. And so does
the Yahoo music player they recently introduced that adds a javascript
player to any page with mp3 files in it.
infringement as well, at least as much as Songza or Seeqpod. And so does
the Yahoo music player they recently introduced that adds a javascript
player to any page with mp3 files in it.
8 months ago
in Why Lane Hartwell is wrong on Mathew's comments
Shelly Mike Arrington is a Lawyer and also runs Techcrunch a popluar Web 2.0 blog that profiles the space .
As for Lane and her IP Lawyer not understanding the Fair Use provisions is another story .
These days if you put something on the internet or publicly in any form expect it to be ripped ,sliced and diced within hours of it being released with or without your authorization .
My advice to lane would be Watermark all your photo's before you release them publicly and a private Flickr account wont help you .
As for Lane and her IP Lawyer not understanding the Fair Use provisions is another story .
These days if you put something on the internet or publicly in any form expect it to be ripped ,sliced and diced within hours of it being released with or without your authorization .
My advice to lane would be Watermark all your photo's before you release them publicly and a private Flickr account wont help you .
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Shelley
"Shelly Mike Arrington is a Lawyer and also runs Techcrunch a popluar Web 2.0 blog that profiles the space .
As for Lane and her IP Lawyer not understanding the Fair Use provisions is another story ."
I have to ask: what makes you think I don't know Arrington, and leaving that aside, that he's more proficient in IP law than a practicing lawyer who specializes in IP?
"These days if you put something on the internet or publicly in any form expect it to be ripped ,sliced and diced within hours of it being released with or without your authorization"
I think this attitude will eventually harm more than help. If we have people hesitate to put their work online because it will be sliced, diced, and used any which way, we may end up losing the ability to see works of art, photos, even writing.
The internet has not done away with courtesy and respect, has it? Or has this all become nothing more than a den of thieves?
As for Lane and her IP Lawyer not understanding the Fair Use provisions is another story ."
I have to ask: what makes you think I don't know Arrington, and leaving that aside, that he's more proficient in IP law than a practicing lawyer who specializes in IP?
"These days if you put something on the internet or publicly in any form expect it to be ripped ,sliced and diced within hours of it being released with or without your authorization"
I think this attitude will eventually harm more than help. If we have people hesitate to put their work online because it will be sliced, diced, and used any which way, we may end up losing the ability to see works of art, photos, even writing.
The internet has not done away with courtesy and respect, has it? Or has this all become nothing more than a den of thieves?
Aren't we supposed to hate appointment based viewing? I thought that only television was the only place for video.
Pesky consumers, who do they think they are?! /smirk