Sony Pictures CTO: Interoperability for Downloaded Media is Essential for the Entertainment Industry
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Mitch describes one of the core issues holding back rapid growth of the digital media market.
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Irregular Circles Illusion
Irene Román found this illusion, while looking for some in Google. She asked us if these two concentric circles below look irregular? “They obviously are”, some of you may say. I did as well! Well, since this is optical illusions website - they’re n…
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.”
Copyright, Technology, and Access to the Law
James Grimmelmann has an interesting new essay, “Copyright, Technology, and Access to the Law,” on the challenges of ensuring that the public has effective knowledge of the laws. This might sound like an easy problem, but Grimmelmann combines his…
Leaked TV Episodes Popular on BitTorrent
This week, seven shows leaked on BitTorrent, before they actually aired on TV. Four of those made it into the top 10 of most downloaded TV-shows. Preair leaks are not uncommon, in fact, it is suggested that some shows are leaked on purpose.
The data of…
We need to embrace peer-to-peer, says VeriSign
Having once been brought to its knees by Napster, the entertainment industry
may have to look to the site for its future.
John Cleese
“I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.”
Verisign embraces P2P - after getting rid of it
The British Times features a pro-P2P piece that’s a little sketchy on the details, but the main message is clear: We’ll need P2P to distribute all those video bits flowing through the networks. That may be true, but the Times seems to have some timing issues in finding the right experts. The paper reports that a big push for P2P comes from Verisign, whose CTO told the Times:
“There may be a bad stigma attached to peer-to-peer but it may be necessary in order to distribute the traffic.”
So what does a company like Verisign do if it believes in the future of P2P media distribution? Apparently it embraces the trend by kicking out its own in-house P2P developers. Verisign sold its P2P video distribution platform Kontiki back in May, a fact that the Times somehow forgot to mention.
Brightcove Announces New Service for High-Quality, Long-form Video Delivery
Earlier today, Brightcove, the big video distribution platform for publishers, announced a major development. It is providing a number of enhancements including a high quality Flash stream for long form videos and a means to generate metadata around…