Archive for the 'Video' Category
There have been lot’s of comments recently about the number of video services and sites launching, best captured today in Arrington’s blog with this headline:
“Online Video Sites: Breeding Like Rabbits”
Yes, and the point is? Look, video is a datatype, arguably the most important datatype. As our pipes get fatter, it’s natural there will be many, [...]
Ed Felten has an excellent post about the privacy implications of Google Video’s DRM solution. Very much worth a read. His conclusion echoes a point I made several months ago on my typepad blog about the Google flirting with disaster with their web accelerator product.
As Felten points out, the flaunting of privacy concerns probably isn’t [...]
First: I have to caveat everything I write here because I haven’t been able to look at or use Google Video yet. That the service was announced, but not launched, is in and of itself lame.
Second, based on what I’ve been able to learn about Google video, it would seem they have not really done [...]
There was a time, during my final years at Real (say, 2001-2003) I thought there was a chance DRM for video could work.
I don’t anymore.
I believe that the only way to create a durable, winning service for paid-for video delivered over the Internet is without DRM. I don’t take this position because I think copyright [...]
