Holmes Wilson Interviewed About Open-Source TV 37
flippy writes "Videoblogger Steve Garfield has a new interview with Holmes Wilson of Downhill Battle and Participatory Culture Foundation, talking about the F/OSS internet TV platform that Participatory Culture is developing and their recently released video publishing package, Broadcast Machine. Their RSS / BitTorrent / VLC application ("TiVo for the Internet") is expected to be released for Mac and Windows by the end of this month."
What would the MPAA say? (Score:1)
Re:What would the MPAA say? (Score:5, Funny)
You see how your logic falls apart, and they're really "fighting terrorism?"
Re:What would the MPAA say? (Score:4, Informative)
Re:One good thing... (Score:1)
META MODERS OF THE PARENT - GET THEM (Score:1, Redundant)
Wow, only 3 comments in 10 minutes. (Score:2, Interesting)
So I wonder whether the remote possibility that we'll ever get useful IP multicast for video streams is going to be forgotten now that we have Bittorrent. I mean, at least BT is here and useful now.
Re:Wow, only 3 comments in 10 minutes. (Score:3, Interesting)
Redundant, no one likes subject lines. (Score:4, Insightful)
I love slashdot. comparing this service to video.google.com or whatever...there should be a time-delay before posting is allowed.
The first and obvious benefit of this service is that it lays a very solid groundwork for any future public defense of the bit torrent protocol. However, my initial happy world is crushed as I wonder what limits will be used to prevent us from basically hijacking cable programming to rebroadcast to the world free of charge?
Quick, name the organization that is going to join the *IAA fight against piracy!
Intranet only? (Score:2, Interesting)
My question is, with the now torrentless operation of azures, protecting just the torrent file on the intranet, does the video immediatly become world accessable with the first viewing by any client, even if that is inside our VPN (with internet access)
"Open Source Television" (Score:2)
What's the difference? (Score:2)
*sigh* What's the difference any more...
Open Source TV = an evolution of Public Access TV? (Score:2, Interesting)
Taking this model to the Internet, using technologies such as that mentioned in the article, will definitely enable much broader distribution channels (but not necessarily larger audiences).
Now, of course, technology is just part of the solution. The real meat is in the content (same applies to podcasting, of course).
One final thought - how long before we see Nielsen ratings for
May I be the first to say (Score:2)
A little advice. (Score:3, Insightful)
Because if they claim they have a TV system, soon the FCC will get regulation rights over it. It has just happened ot the guys of IP telephony...
My 2 cents.
Abolish copyright! (Score:1, Offtopic)
Either that, or they should bring it back to the way it used to be, so that the rights of the public and the rights of the copyright holders are balanced. Things should go out of copyright after a good fifteen years or so.
There are many reasons this is so. There have been many books published at the turn of the 1900's that you can buy today, brand new. Books with ingenius information about how various mechanical systems were constructed, etc. This i
The problem is content, not distribution. (Score:3, Insightful)
There are already sites that will host your video for free, and cheap commercial hosting services that don't charge for bandwidth. If your stuff has any merit at all, it's not hard to get it hosted. Unless it's porno, you probably won't get that many viewers. The Internet Archive has vast amounts of video, but few people watch it.
Bittorrent only works well because many of the users are pirating the same stuff, yielding economies of scale.
Video Blog (Score:1)
Broadcasting machine sucks (Score:1, Insightful)
You can get the same functionality out of this software as wordpress or any other blogging software.
My definition of a program call Broadcasting machine would be something that includes: Video editing, Live video switches/faders and broadcast servers
Thats what i esentially what i need need with our own project http://www.freematrix.us/ [freematrix.us]