From the monthly archives:
October 2007
links for 2007-10-10
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From DV Magazine, some good info and tips on encoding for HD, including MPEG-2, VC-1 and AVC/H.264 (PDF)
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Google announces adsense-for-video (YouTube)
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links for 2007-10-09
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“Think about it. How can the FCC condition regulations…on the payment of money? And then have the rules dissolve if it doesn’t get the money? This is such a pure quid pro quo - it’s government for sale.”
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FCC declines to investigate ATT spying on customers
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Futures of Entertainment 2007 Conference
The Futures of Entertainment Conference is presented by the MIT Comparative Media Studies Dept—
This year’s conference will consider developments in advertising, cult media, metrics, measurement, and accounting for audiences, cultural labor and audience relations, and mobile platform development.
Futures of Entertainment Conference
MIT Bartos Theater@MIT Media Lab
November 16-17, 2007
Cambridge, MA
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Jodorowsky Interviewed for Arthur Magazine
Alejandro Jodorowsky, interviewed by Mark Pilkington For Arthur Magazine.
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Facebook’s Myspace-like Music Platform
Contrary to previous rumors, Facebook isn’t working on a music store, but a promotional platform for bands.
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RIAA: Out of Control.
Hopefully, such high-profile outrages as the $220,000 fine levied against a Minnesota woman for “infringement” will ignite the necessary backlash to rein in the RI/MPAA. All the salient points are nailed in this piece by Declan McCullagh at CNET:
After decades of special-interest lobbying by large holders of intellectual property rights, U.S. copyright law has spiraled out of control. It’s been transformed from limited protections of authors’ rights for 14 years to a juggernaut with criminal enforcement, sky-high penalties, and up to 120 years of legal protection.
Copyright no longer abides by the fundamental principle of law, which is that the damages awarded should be related to any harm committed.
“It doesn’t strike a regular person that by passing a CD around the neighborhood, they should have their house taken away,” says Lew Rockwell, president of the free-market Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama. “And by electronic means it shouldn’t be any different.”
The technical term for this is “rent-seeking,” meaning special-interest coalitions who pressure the government to transfer wealth to them. The general public (reasonably) can’t keep track of the minutiae of proposals to expand copyright law, but RIAA lobbyists can devote 100 percent of their time to the job. What happens is that copyright law continues to clamp down on Americans, inexorably, like a ratchet.
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Adobe Launches Media Player Public Beta
Adobe released a public beta of it’s anticipated Media Player. Content partners include CBS, Yahoo Video, PBS and Blip.tv among others. In addition to Flash video (flv) playback, it also catalogs, saves, and implements Media RSS feeds, as well as DRM. AMP is an AIR application, requiring the installation of the AIR runtime.
Download the Adobe AIR runtime.
Download Adobe Media Player.
in other Adobe news, they also released an update to the mobile Flash plugin, Flash Lite.
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