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7
Mar 07

Turkey Blocks YouTube

I am sure most of you heard the news by now since it is even picked up by Techcrunch and the discussion is on the front page of Techmeme as of now with lots of related discussions including popular blogs like Mashable, IP Democracy and many more.

It makes me really sad that my country is taking an action that supports censorship and aligns herself with the likes of China and Iran when it comes to trying to block internet.

I read (in a Turkish source) that the same court ruled the ban said the ban may be lifted if YouTube removes the offending clips from the website. What is funny to me is that YouTube had removed the clips before the ban has started. So, I am not sure where this leaves the decision. My guess is that the ban will be lifted in a couple of days. But the damage is done and Turkey’s action is took its place in the history of attempted censorship.

To be fair, Turkey is not the only country who is struggling with the new legislative demands of the Internet. As I read in IP Democracy’s post, France is also taking action for making a large part of video-based citizen journalism illegal. Moreover, less than a week ago US Justice Department targeted image sharing sites in their quest to be able to increase their Internet surveillance.

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6
Feb 07

Steve Jobs Throws the Ball at Record Labels about DRM

Steve Jobs published a long rant (“Thoughts on Music“) about iPod, iTunes and DRM in the Hot News section of the Apple website.

Techmeme is going crazy with this discussions on Jobs’ thoughts. With his rant Jobs seem to take a position alongside anti-DRM crowd and sort of blames major record labels for its existence. The writing is a very well thought out piece which gives a background on how Apple iTunes made landmark deals with record labels.

Jobs goes on to make the point that only 3% of iPods hold music with DRM from Apple according to the accurate data that they have and goes on to say that he can’t understand how this is regarded as an iPod-iTunes lock-in.

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16
Jan 07

Netflix’s Flirt with Online Video

Today, Netflix announced that they are going to start offering customers the option of instantly watching movies on their PCs. I am calling it a flirt because this cannot be a serious relationship.

The blogosphere went crazy over the news as expected and created a lot of buzz about Netflix. Here is the most recent capture of Techmeme about the news.

I guess the only group of people to be excited about this announcement would be the ones who would like having an alternative method of getting their movies and who do not really care about the limitations of offerings.

The most recent player in the field of delivering online video was Amazon and they did not get very positive reviews about the initiative. The case is similar with Netflix because they are not bringing anything new to the table.

First off all, it is not a download service, it is a streaming service. There is no way to download the content to ones computer for watching later, say during a trip. On top of that, you have to be online to get one of the available 1000 (1% of Netflix’s inventory) movies.

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16
Jan 07

Joost (The Venice Project) Invite Available

I neglected to mention in the previous post that I have 2 invitations available for being a beta tester for Joost, aka The Venice Project.

Drop me a line in the comments if you are enthusiastic about Internet TV and want an invite.

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16
Jan 07

The Venice Project is Now Called Joost

You must have heard the long time stealth Internet TV project called The Venice Project.

The buzz about the new product of the creators of popular file sharing program KaZaA and Skype is very loud.

Today it was announced that The Venice Project will be called Joost from now on. Janus Friis points out that while this name means nothing at the moment, “it will come to mean great quality Internet TV the way it should be”. We will see if this will be the case in the future.

I had the chance to play with the new initiative as an early beta tester. It is based on peer-to-peer technology and I must say the viewing experience was satisfactory for considering the project in its beta phase.

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2
Jan 07

Music Industry Changes Its Tune on Podcasting

The WSJ article explains how music industry is starting to embrace podcasting by licensing songs to promotional podcasting group. Can we really say they are embracing podcasting? Is podcasting better of without the music industry embracing it? I always thought podcasting is better when it is indie.

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