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The Center for Social Media at American University recently released a report on fair use and internet media titled: Recut, Reframe, Recycle. The co-authors, Professors Pat Aufderheide and Peter Jaszi, shows that many uses of copyrighted material in today’s online videos are eligible for fair use consideration. The study points to a wide variety of [...]

Miro is a great application to watch free internet video channels and play any video file. The greates news is, that miro runs nearly without issues under Linux (tested with Ubuntu). Compare Miro vs. Joost Miro Joost VIEWER ACCESS Access to any publisher with video RSS feeds, including anyone on YouTube, Revver, Blip, and many, [...]

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Wal-Mart Stores Inc quietly canceled its online video download service on 12/21 less than a year after the site went live, a company spokeswoman said on Thursday. Wal-Mart shut down the download site after Hewlett Packard Co discontinued the technology that powered it, Walmart.com spokeswoman Amy Colella said in an e-mail. [...]

i just watched for fun the difference between linux and windows video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xC5uEe5OzNQ and now youtube.com response with “Http/1.1 Service Unavailable” How are all massive traffic sites like YouTube, Facebook, Myspace prepared for scalability and stability ? Today we are much more dependend from online media, social networks in our transition from offline-desktop usage to [...]

News Item edited by Thomas Koeppen This is the first time a UK broadcaster has provided an on-demand streaming service for all three platforms. Each week there will be around 250 different programmes available to watch via the iPlayer streaming service for seven days after they are first broadcast. The streaming version of iPlayer will [...]