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See also: http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2012/09/04/hugo_awards_ustream_science_fiction_webcast_blocked_by_rogue_copyright_bots.html http://www.slate.
by jellicle 14y ago
See also:
http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2012/09/04/hugo_awards_ustream_science_fiction_webcast_blocked_by_rogue_copyright_bots.html http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2012/09/04/hugo_awar...
There's a great opening for someone to make a billion dollars running a video service from a country other than the U.S. "We won't shut down the video of the event you just spent millions of dollars creating and promoting" is an easy selling point. You just have to make it almost as easy or as easy to use as existing services, and promote it a bit to broadcasters.
- ktizo 14y agoQuality mass streaming to the US might be difficult without using US infrastructure. And presumably if people start doing it by cloud based streaming nodes, Amazon could be forced to block instances.
- ihsw 14y agoYou don't need to stream to the US, it's purely optional in this modern day and age. The US is not the be-all-to-end-all of audiences.
- Retric 14y agoCDN's have made the more professional version of this a commodity. As to leaving the US, Megaupload demonstrates that this is not enough.
- marquis 14y agoMegaupload's servers were in Virginia. If they weren't, it may have played out differently.
- Retric 14y agoThey also made an effort to comply with DMCA take down notices.
- nvmc 14y agoManagement (including Dotcom) also emailed each other about downloading infringing material from their own service. And while they did better with DMCA notices than the likes of Oron, they were still pretty slack.