The Pirate Bay, the world's most high profile file-sharing website launched another video sharing website, The Video Bay. The service will offer unrestricted video content in violation of copyright law.
Peter Sunde, TBP founder, announced The Video Bay to the Open Video Conference in New York.
In a statement on the site, Mr Sunde said the service would use the latest HTML 5 features.
"More specifically the audio and video tags with the ogg/theora video and audio formats.
"This site will be an experimental playground and as such subjected to both live and drunk encoding, so please don't bug us too much if the site isn't working properly," he said.
The statement from TBP is viewed as provocative as its founders were found guilty of breaking copyright law and sentenced to one year in jail each, though still are free man.
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I am only surprised that it took them so long to announce it. Perhaps mobile phones were not capable in the past, but broadband was.
With a service called TV Everywhere, Comcast and Time Warner will give cable subscribers access to "premium" television content via broadband, and later cellphone connections.
To begin with, 5,000 Comcast subscribers will begin testing the system next month, giving them access to Time Warner's TBS and TNT channels on their computers, and the same channels' video-on-demand catalogs on their cable boxes.
An outstanding BBC production called "The Dream" (1990) was adapted by Murray Watts from "The Dream of a Ridiculous Man". "The Dream" is a monologue of an utopian vision of heaven of earth. Director: Norman Stone - Staring: Jeremy Irons. (In 5 parts Total time 40 minutes)
Hottest Girls has is the first application approved for sale in the iTunes App Store that contains nudity. Photos of topless women join the application’s “2200+ sexy bikini babes and lingerie models.”
Of course, porn has long been accessible on the iPhone through its Internet browser, but this marks the first time Apple has sanctioned images of naked women for the popular device.
The change in Apple’s porn policy is likely a result of expanded parental controls in the new iPhone 3.0 OS software. Age restrictions can now be set to prevent mature downloads from the App Store.
Important: Starting with QuickTime 7.1.5, you can no longer issue javascript:// URLs or call JavaScript functions directly from within a QuickTime movie. This feature was removed from QuickTime for security reasons. This document includes techniques for working around this change.
Introduction to JavaScript Scripting Guide for QuickTime
Full Guide (next page) includes Movie Commands Reference, Quick Time properties, etc.
Important: If QTSRC is set to a relative URL, it must be relative to the movie specified in the SRC parameter, not the web page in which it is embedded.
Note: URLs cannot cross local/remote zone boundaries. In other words, a local movie (file:// protocol) can invoke only local URLs, such as another local movie, and remote movies (http://, https://, or rtsp:// protocol) can invoke only remote URLs, such as another remote movie or a web page. Furthermore, remote URLs are restricted to http://, https://, and rtsp:// protocols. Other protocols, such as javascript://, are prohibited.
More here
HTML Scripting Guide for Quick Time
If you do have QuickTime Pro, there might be a workaround:
- Open the movie in QuickTime Pro;
- Display its properties (by pressing Command-J or Control-J);
- Select the master track;
- Click the Presentation tab;
- Enable the checkbox beside "Enter fullscreen mode when opened."
- Set the webpage to launch the movie in the QuickTime Player by assigning the
targetparameter toquicktimeplayer.
Needs to be tested.
Mr. Anderson, the editor in chief of Wired, who gives 50 speeches a year for an estimated $35,000 to $50,000 apiece (up to 2 and a half million dollars just for speeches) promoting big ideas, writes best-selling books such as “The Long Tail” has yet to come up with one big enough to save Wired's business. According to today's NYT article:
The magazine has lost 50 percent of its ad pages so far this year, ranking among the worst off of the more than 150 monthly magazines measured by Media Industry Newsletter.
Mr. Anderson seems to believe that by redesigning the Wired magazine three times and winning National Magazine Award design category two years running he would reinvegorate the struggling print business model.
But it is still one of the least popular magazines at Condé Nast, with a circulation of only 704,000. Its Web site, meanwhile, is the most popular of Condé Nast’s magazine sites, with about 11 million unique visitors a month, according to the company’s internal figures. That suggests that technology-forward readers prefer to read articles in a technology-forward way.
And yet, when publication had to downsize it eliminated a quarter of its Web employees and only four print employees.
Mr. Anderson belives in Free. He even wrote a book about it “Free: The Future of a Radical Price,” which comes out in July and is guaranteed to be another best-seller. Another thing Mr. Anderson belives is the buzz. It takes a lot of it to be a tech guru and get paid for it.
“The problems are obvious, the range of solutions are obvious,” he said.
Will social networks increase in size is not an obvious hypothesis. There could be more networks and more groups but cognitive power of the brain is limited to the number of friends one can develop. "Extrapolating from the brain sizes and social networks of apes, Dr Dunbar suggested that the size of the human brain allows stable networks of about 148," quoting the related article by The Economist. Even more worrisome is the fact that with the rise of social networks, the number of "core" friends is on downward trend.
By statutory definition, the term “digital property” does not include:
- video programming services, including video on demand television services; and
- broadcasting services, including content to provide such services
Read more on what qualifies as Digital Property and is taxable in the State of New Jersey.
"There are many tools available for working with Amazon S3 without having to write a software application. For this article, we’ll be using a plug-in for the Firefox browser, called S3Fox. You can also use one of the many code samples and tools available through the Amazon S3 Resource Center, or use a product built on Amazon S3 in the Solutions Catalog.
First, create a bucket in your Amazon S3 account that corresponds to the domain you’ll use to host your media files. For our web site, we’ll create a bucket called “media.webscalecomputing.info”.
Important: Use lower-case letters only to name buckets that will be used in DNS redirects. This requirement is a function of the way that DNS handles names (always lower case).
Why use this specific bucket name? Amazon S3 has a virtual hosting feature that allows inbound requests from a web site, so it will serve up content from the bucket by the same name. We’ll talk more about this feature in the next section when we configure our domain.
Next, add your media files to the new bucket in Amazon S3. Using the Firefox plug-in, it’s as simple as selecting the files on your local system, then clicking the transfer button."
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