Judge Denies Appeal that Deep Linking Directly to Video and Audio Streams is Not Illegal

Posted on Friday 9 February 2007

LinkingA Texas judge ruled last December that SuperCrossLive.com, owned by Robert Davis, was violating copyright laws by directly linking to audiocasts of motorcycle racing that were created, owned and hosted by SFX Motor Sports.

The judge ruled that "the link Davis provides on his Web site is not a ‘fair use’ of copyright material" and ordered all links to the audiocasts to be removed. SFX sued supercrosslive.com because they believed that listeners should only access the audiocasts through the website, in order for logos of sponsors to be seen.

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Chris Tew @ 12:04 pm
Filed under: Legal, DRM, Piracy & IP and News
BluOnyx Interview with Bob Guenther of Agere | 15 Questions

Posted on Thursday 8 February 2007

BluOnyxI recently had my 15 questions with Bob Guenther of Agere systems about the recently announced BluOnyx Mobile Content Server. The BluOnyx is an advanced memory stick with some cool features for when you’re on the move. You can access the contents of a BluOnyx with your cell phone over WiFi and Bluetooth, as well as stream video to PMPs and cell phones. To sum up the BluOnyx allows you to:

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Chris Tew @ 7:02 am
Filed under: 15 Questions and Interviews and Talks and Mobile Video and News and Placeshifting & Slingbox
MobiTV Prepares U-Verse for Cell Phones

Posted on Wednesday 7 February 2007

MobiTVMobiTV has announced it is working with AT&T to bring the AT&T U-Verse IPTV service to cell phone screens. MobiTV will be contributing its own licensed video content and eventually be adding video from the U-Verse package.

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Chris Tew @ 9:06 am
Filed under: AT&T and MobiTV and Mobile Video and News and Video Distribution and Wireless TV
Joost version 0.7.4 available

Posted on Tuesday 6 February 2007

Joost LogoJust got an email from Joost (formally known as The Venice Project) saying that version 0.7.4 of Joost is available to download for beta testers. If you are not sure what Joost is then check out this post with some screenshots. The latest improvements are: (more…)
Chris Tew @ 9:19 am
Filed under: Joost and News
Cuts.com | Video Editing and Remixing

Posted on Tuesday 6 February 2007

Cuts.com LogoCuts.com has just opened up private beta testing of its new video editing and remixing service which has been in development for a year. Cuts.com will be entering the marketplace along side the likes of Jumpcut (owned by Yahoo) and Motionbox,

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Chris Tew @ 8:31 am
Filed under: Internet TV Software & Tools and News and Video Editing & Production and YouTube
No HD on AT&T Homezone

Posted on Monday 5 February 2007

AT&T HomezoneAT&T Homezone is a mish-mash IPTV/satellite TV service which features live TV from the DISH network, movie downloads from MovieLink and TV shows from Akimbo. The Homezone box does support DVR functionality but is not High Definition (HD) ready.

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Chris Tew @ 8:06 am
Filed under: AT&T and AT&T HomeZone and Akimbo and Internet HDTV and News and TV Gadgets & Equipment
Blinkx It!

Posted on Saturday 3 February 2007

Blinkx LogoBlinkx is a video clip search engine that uses speech-to-text transcription technology to index online video, including both user-generated and commercial content.

Blinks has created a very simple but yet very innovative widget for webmasters. The widget is called Blinkx It and it allows you to insert relevant video into your website automatically.

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Chris Tew @ 4:45 pm
Filed under: Blinkx.com and News and Video Distribution and Video Search Engines