60yr Old Sputnik Footage Spotlights Outdatd Copyright
From Ars:
When independent filmmaker David Hoffman set out to make a documentary on the Sputnik hysteria that swept the US in the 1950s, he styled the piece as an hour-and-a-half feature film. He relied heavily on old news clips from the time, none of which were provided by the networks themselves (most didn’t even [...]
Latest Google Offering: G-Evil
We love Google, heck we can’t name a single day in the past 3 years (or more) that we have not used their search… and we love Youtube, we find ourselves increasingly using the online streaming service instead of downloading pirated content (again, just goes to show: if there are viable alternatives even the most [...]
Viacom’s Lawyer: Customers “Need To Be Treated With Respect” (With Video!)
Well, we certainly do agree with Viacom on the subject, Customers do indeed need to to be treated with respect, unfortunately we don’t agree with most of the other garbage that followed from his mouth.
After his initial ‘good cop’ routine, comes the ‘not-so-bad’ cop routine, problem is, he was playing both parts himself and even [...]
Apple Requests, No, DEMANDS Your Attention
Apple’s filed a patent on a design for a device that won’t let its owner use it unless that person demonstrates that she has complied with an advertiser’s demands by paying attention to an ad and taking some action indicating her dutiful attention.
It’s amazing how many of these vendors fail to understand Chekhov’s first law [...]
YouTube to Broadcast in 1080p HD!
I love YouTube, but one of my pet beefs about it was the lack of quality video (and no, i am not talking about idiots posting bad covers of beautiful songs – I AM talking about the the quality of the video itself) … it did improve slightly with the HQ (High Quality) offering [...]
Comcast: Catching The Donkey By The Tail
Comcast Corp.’s chief operating officer, Steve Burke, issued a warning to those content providers who sit by idly and complain about online viewing without doing something to change the TV business model. “An entire generation is growing up, if we don’t figure out how to change that behavior so it respects copyright and subscription revenue [...]
Rupert Murdoch’s Rant: Ban Google,No Fair Use (with Video!)
Cory Doctorow from Boing Boing writes:
For months (years?) Rupert Murdoch has been waving his jowls around and shouting that Google is stealing from him by not paying to index his material. And all along, we’ve been saying, “Pffft, right. If you don’t like it, just add a robots.txt file that tells Google not to index [...]
BBC Backs Down To Public Outcry
Remember the BBC’s daft plan to put DRM on high-definition broadcasts even though it’s illegal for the BBC to put DRM on its broadcasts? Remember when people rose up and sent angry letters to Ofcom, the UK regulator that oversees the BBC’s broadcasting activity?
It worked. Ofcom told the BBC to forget about it. Score one [...]
Movie MAFIAA Get 60 Minutes As Their Speakerbox
In what can only be described as shoddy propaganda and incompetent journalism the TV series 60 minutes aired nothing but studio sponsored propaganda complete with bogus facts and figures.
CBS’s 60 Minutes has made itself out to be more of a laughingstock than usual when it comes to “investigative reporting,” putting on an episode about “video [...]
