Building a billion dollar mobile tv site with other peoples content

This is just like YouTube, offering mobile tv premium content.

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BBC TV player to Compete with YouTube

BBC iPlayer to Launch on Friday (and why 4OD sucks)

The long awaited BBC iPlayer is launching in two days time (on the 27th July) for Windows XP only. The service will allow people to download TV shows to their computers and watch them for a set number of days after.

Channel 4 launched a similar service called 4OD (on demand) a couple of months ago however has been plagued with problems, if the BBC are to succeed with the iPlayer it must not have the following problems that 4OD has:

• Connection - 4OD only allows people in the UK to download shows, that’s fine as we pay for the shows however the technology they use to only allow UK people sucks. For about the first month my BT connection was unable to use 4OD because I was apparently not living in the UK. I know some people now who are still told they cannot connect.
• Quality - When making 4OD videos full screen everything is pixelated, I was watching 8 out of 10 cats last night and Sean Locks ear was one giant pixel. The average 45min show is 350mb to download off 4OD yet if I downloaded the same show off a torrent site with the same file size the quality would be so much better.
• Application slowness - 4OD is basically a web page stuck inside Windows Media Player, this means that every time you click a link it loads another page. The problem with this is that the site and application doesn’t look like a web page so you expect it to act a stand alone application. This makes 4OD seem incredibly slow to use and painful to navigate.
• Program expiration - This I believe is the biggest problem of 4OD - everything expires so quickly. For most free shows you can watch them for seven days after use. So if you download it on the sixth day and then leave it for two days it will have expired. Also once you have watched a show the expiration date changes. I personally don’t see why shows need to expire, the chances are if I have seen it I’m not going to buy it anyway.
• Lame Technology - This may just be me but every time I go to stream a show it gets past the adverts (that don’t particularly bother me) then it tells me I don’t have the correct license installed to watch the show. It gives me no way to install the correct license and I just have to accept that I can’t stream anything.
• Windows XP, Internet Explorer 6, WMP 11 - I don’t like applications that force you down one particular route of technology. I have a Mac as my main machine but I don’t mind using my PC. On my PC I use Firefox but I’m told I must use IE then finally I use VLC for media but I’m told to use WMP.

The reason Youtube is so popular is that it is so convenient and just works - this is a far cry from the buggy inconvenient 4OD. However 4OD is still a Beta so its allowed to suck to a certain extent!

By the sounds of it the iPlayer is going to equally suck come this Friday but I will reserve my judgement for now.

More new TV stations to watch on your iphone

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video cell phone ?
Palm Pilot?

Now you can receive AmericaFree.TV on your
3GPP and 3GPP2 video cell phone with MobileFree.TV !

You can watch our streams on Palm OS 5 connected devices with Kinoma Player 4 EX.

Enter www.MobileFree.TV into your browser or, go to WirelessFree.TV, the html version. (MobileFree.TV is a WML site for WAP enabled cell phones and will not display properly in most browsers.)!

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New Free TV Stations available on YouTube

Romanian Tv

Antena3: mms://82.76.253.18/antena3

RoMusic: mms://194.126.179.252:8086

TVRI: rtsp://212.54.100.35/broadcast/live.rm (You need Real Player to Watch this channel)

English Tv

BaseballChannel TV : Click to Play

CartoonsFree.TV: Click to Play (You Need QuickTime to play it)

French Tv

France 24: mms://live.france24.com/france24_fr.wsx

MBOA TV: mms://88.191.23.167/mboatv

Upcoming new channels in 1 week

German Tv

Del TV: del-tv_dsl_broad

N-TV: mms://stream.n-tv.de/ntvlive

Upcoming new channels in 1 week.

Turkish Tv

Bahane Tv: mms://81.169.135.42/bahanetv1

TRT 1: mms://212.175.166.3/TV1

Upcoming new channels in 1 week.
Japanese Tv

Oh!samaTv: wms9live.pod.tv

SonyMusic: morrich.gekimedia.net

Upcoming New channels in 1 week
Spanish Tv

RTPA Tv: mms://wm.ondemand.pa

Upcoming new channels in 1 week

Pending…
Italian Tv

Play Tv: mms://85.18.98.225:8000

Canal 3: mms://84.233.254.2/3Channel

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Music companies are going after your YouTube Video's

Mom Sues Universal Music For Blocking YouTube Video

SAN FRANCISCO -- A Pennsylvania mother sued Universal Music Publishing Co. in federal court in San Francisco on Wednesday for forcing YouTube to take down her home video of her toddler son dancing to 29 seconds of a Prince song.

Stephanie Lenz's lawsuit accuses Universal Music of sending YouTube an allegedly baseless complaint on June 4 claiming that her video violated the company's copyright to Prince's "Let's Go Crazy."

The complaint resulted in YouTube's removal of the video from its Web site for six weeks until Lenz sent the video-sharing Web site a counter-notice demanding reposting, the lawsuit says.

Lenz said, "I was really surprised and angry when I learned my video was removed. Universal should not be using legal threats to try to prevent people from sharing videos of their kids with family and friends."

The lawsuit contends the brief video is protected by the doctrine of fair use, which allows limited use of copyrighted material for purposes such as commentary and artistic expression.

The 29-second film shows Lenz's 18-month-old son Holden bouncing to the rock star's song and smiling at the camera as he pushes a rolling walker around her kitchen.

Lenz, a writer who lives in the western Pennsylvania town of Gallitzin, recorded the scene with a digital camera in February and posted it on YouTube for her family and friends to see, according to the lawsuit.

The lawsuit seeks a court order barring Universal from filing future copyright claims over the video as well as unspecified financial compensation for Lenz's loss of free speech and her costs in securing the reposting.

Lenz is represented by attorneys from the San Francisco-based Electronic Frontier Foundation, which has a project of protecting online free speech.

EFF attorney Jason Schultz said the lawsuit was filed in the federal court for Northern California because YouTube has headquarters in San Bruno and is now owned by Mountain View-based Google.

Schultz said Lenz claims the background recording of the song was fair use because it was brief, noncommercial personal use and was employed in artistic expression.

"The music is playing in her kitchen. She's just recording her child," the attorney said.

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Premium content from New Zealand and England is free on YouTube

Michael Goldstein of Stun Mobile Media and the USA Group started this blog to follow the YouTube phenomenon of offering the public premium content for free. It appears that TV networks from around the globe are embracing the ability of a new way to deliver premium content.

Kiwi Network TVNZ Partners With YouTube, Adds Own Branding To Channel

Posted By Robert Andrews - Tue 26 Jun 2007 06:30 AM PST

New Zealand’s TVNZ is the latest television network to sign a partnership deal with YouTube. As with YouTube’s earlier BBC partnerships, TVNZ will add to a branded channel program excerpts that act as a shop window for the broadcaster’s content. This deal was not amongst a range of content partners YouTube referred to when it unveiled nine international sites in Paris last week, and is said to be its first in Australasia. The partnership is non-exclusive and, indeed, even on YouTube, is branded under TVNZ’s on-demand identity, which also makes a range of full shows available for streaming and download at tvnzondemand.co.nz. (Release).

• BBC In Clips Deal With YouTube; Ad Rev Share; UK Blackout On News Clips

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Uploading User Created Content is Two Clicks away for Helio users on YouTube. How will Apple counter?

Michael Goldstein of Stun Mobile Media and the USA Group have been following the race to make apps for cell phone services that simplify uploading user genereated content to sites like YouTube. “The competition is forcing the mobile phone carriers to roll out services that its subscribers only dreamed about”, said Mr. Michael Goldstein of Stun Mobile Media and USA Group. He added, “people had these things they wanted on their wish list.” Apple’s iphone is running behind , and is more costly than Helio. Verizon and t-mobile are going after the music segment, and beginning to go after YouTube users. (Helio uses Sprint mobile service for voice and data) Meanwhile, Apple’s iphone camera is a paltry 2 mega pixel, while manufactures of mobile phones like Samsung have already perfected 10 mega pixel mobile-cam video phones that arrived more than 1 year ago. It’s not the software problems that Apple needs to perfect, but the outdated hardware, that will keep the YouTube mobile-cam video user-created-content, away from a company not even offering video. The deal between AT&T and Apple, is great for the consumer because the other carriers and manufacturers will finally be forced to release technologically advanced mobile phones that were until now, only for the asian market. Faster data speeds and lower prices for data are the next tools to fight for subscribers, after the smoke clears from getting our attention about the hardware and features aspect of this game. It might be all about the hardware if WIFI continues to grow.

The two-click YouTube upload and a dedicated, exclusive YouTube app for Helio will happen soon.

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Youtube video slips in a commercial during a teen blog and makes big money

Michael Goldstein of Stun Mobile Media and the USA Group noticed a new form of product placement that will make its way into more forms of content seen on the internet and mobile phones.

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The famous YouTube video blog of Lonelygirl15 has added another fictional character to its charade of what looks like user created content but was exposed as the work of a professional and not a 16-year old in her bedroom.

The show’s creators feel they have integrated the commercialism to achieve even more reality for the show. “While the storyline comes first and the fact that the new character works at Neutrogena heightens the reality,” said LG15 creators Miles Beckett and Greg Goodfried, while counting bags of money from its hundreds of thousands of daily viewers.

Marketing the video blog to brands, included the following in the sales pitch: “This long-term relationship with Neutrogena is unprecedented, as the brand comes to life organically with the characters and storyline”.

Product placements in video games, search engines and mobile phone content was the last biggest sources of income for the advertising industry that have been doing lucrative product placements in television and film for years. This type of corporate character placement branding is new.

LG15’s video blogs are being viewed hundreds of thousands of times and other Web dramas such as Prom Queen are enjoying success.

The Neutrogena character will be an experiment worth watching as show creators and the whole industry, look for ways to monetize.

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Your Children’s School is allowig outsiders to arrest them on campus for file sharing crimes

Michael Goldstein of Stun Mobile Media and the USA Group have been following the court cases of file sharing of illegal content over the internet, and came across the new alarming article by Melissa Santos about a school’s identifying its students under threat of subpoena. For the school to avoid a lawsuit of their own, they are turning in and pointing out students.

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The University of Washington announced a new policy about illegal music file-sharing on campus:

• The school will not shield students from lawsuits from the recording industry.
• The school will track students down and serve them with legal notices.
• The student legal notice informs about settlement options prior to a lawsuit.
• The school will not pass the students’ names to the association.



A University of Washington spokeswomen said about the legal notices:
• The school will forward notices of pending lawsuits from the Recording Industry Association of America to students who engage in illegal downloading on the university’s computer network.
• The notices say offending students have 20 days to settle with the association by paying it between $3,000 to $5,000
• If the offending student does not pay the settlement, they will be taken to court without possibility of a settlement.
Eric Godfrey, a student spokesman for the students at the University of Washington Seattle campus, informed students of the University of Washington policy Monday through a disturbing campus wide e-mail. The email said: “some students have letters on the way.”

Where do students typically use their computers?
Students can use the University of Washington Internet network not only in dorms and in campus computer labs, but also in fraternities, sororities and other housing off-campus.



Other University’s are wondering if their students need to worry. Spokesman Mike Wark said of his University, that it has not been a discussion of the school’s administrators on their policies concerning illegal file-sharing.



While no known students of the University of Washington have been prosecuted for illegal file-sharing to date, the music companies are getting their message across to try and stop illegal file-sharing.




With the current speed of downloading and file sharing moving at speeds that don’t deter file sharing, and taking no longer than an IPOD song to be downloaded, it is no wonder that the music industry is taking notice and trying to crack down on file-sharing services. Their current campaign is to target individual downloaders at some token schools and Universities without going all out to war.


The recording companies started sending pre-lawsuit letters to certain universities earlier this year as a strategy to combat file-sharing on campuses. By making their message known through the press and the courts, they might not have to crack down at all schools.

Michael Goldstein, who regularly writes about the casual illegal downloading by today’s teens to portable computers, mobile phones, MP3 players, suggested that the teens will grow up and continue to see nothing wrong with illegal file-sharing as adults. Mr. Michael Goldstein’s Stun Mobile Media and USA group tackle this idea with a suggestion and implementation of creating content enriched with advertising. It’s like giving your kids vitamin enriched food and drinks. It tastes the same, and they don’t see or hear the difference, and its better for you. Mr. Goldstein finds it hard to police all teens and adults who continue illegal file-sharing, rather he suggests looking at the problem with a new solution.
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A Mother fights the studio bulldogs to save son from his file sharing crime

Michael Goldstein of Stun Mobile Media and the USA Group have been following the court cases of file sharing of illegal content over the internet, and came across the case of a single mother Tanya Anderson.

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Tanya Anderson, the single mother from Oregon previously sued by the RIAA — which dropped the case just before losing a summary judgement — is now
suing the RIAA and their hired snoop Safenet (aka MediaSentry) for malicious prosecution. Read More

The legal savvy single mother Tanya Anderson proved a worthy opponent with some legal successes so far, is asserting claims under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act and the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization Act. (RICO)



A reader at Groklaw has already learned that Tanya Anderson is seeking to have the RIAA forfeit the copyrights in question as part of the settlement (search the page for '18.6-7').

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Will parents pay their kids illegal file sharing ticket or will they be sent to jail?

Michael Goldstein of Stun Mobile media and the USA group reacts to a dilemma of how the parents will respond to an ultimateum by the recording studios to get paid and to prosecute students at the University of Washington.

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Several readers let us know that the University of Washington has announced that it will pass on RIAA settlement offer letters to students identified, presumably by IP address, as suspected file sharers. "The notices say offending students have 20 days to settle with the association by paying it about $3,000 to $5,000 or be taken to court without possibility of a settlement." The Vice Provost for Student Life sent an email to all students saying, "The University has been notified by the RIAA that we will be receiving a number of these early settlement letters. After careful consideration, we have decided to forward the letters to the alleged copyright violators."

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Mobile Content can include music or ringtones by Amy Winehouse, Beyonce or movies like Knocked Up

Big entertainment is coming to your small screeen mobile phone.

What teens use their mobile phones for today, will be very different a year from now. While mobile content currently involves ringtones, and text messaging, and downloading your favorite song and mobile video game, the near future will bring live mobile tv, movies on demand, and banking services. The GPS tracking in all phones might be used for advertising when passing the stores signal. amp'd and helio are using the GPS tracking now as a premium service to find your friendds, with all other mobile services like verison, sprint, at&t, t-mobile following. Other countries are the testing grounds of what we can expect in the USA, so you only need to check the internet to find out what the newest technologies and advancements are in mobile phone technology. Stun Mobile media is at the forefront of the emerging and constantly changing mobile phone explosion. Stun mobile media's main interest is in mobile marketing in all media content sources, from mobile video's to music to mobile video games, to text messaging.

Michael Goldstein is COO and chief creative for Los Angeles-based Stun Mobile Media, specializing in the acquisition, creation and distribution of mobile content. He can be reached at mg@stunmobile.com.

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Premium content is free on YouTube. Are the studios coming after your kids?

Kids have grown up stealing music, and now they're uploading premium content they don't have permission to use. So now what's going to happen? Are the studio's going to come after your kids and arrest them, or are they going to find ways to use this as a promotion tool.

If You Can't Beat 'Em…

Content owners need to rethink how they deal with online video sites



One of the biggest problems that content owners face today is that kids have grown up stealing music. The music industry fought this fight too long and as a result has lost this generation, which now expects to receive its video content in a similar way. Today's kids don't distinguish between web video and television—to them it's just content. Perhaps the lesson that traditional media companies should take from this example is to find ways to join consumers, not beat them.





What irks the studios is that disruptive companies like YouTube have built strong businesses based on users uploading premium content they don't have permission to use. It's not so much the fact that the content is on the platform. It's more that YouTube is not rewarding the studios as content owners with the advertising dollars it has been able to monetize from their content.







Alan Bell, Paramount Studios' executive vp and first chief technology officer, doesn't dispute that "YouTube is an efficient sharing platform," but he adds, "It's just not being used properly. Logically, it seems that a good idea is to have companies like YouTube simply develop software that serves the needs of the entertainment industry."

That would seem like an easy enough task, but before this happens, the parties need to resolve who owns the content copyright. Who is going to exploit the copyright? Who sells the advertising? And what assets go to what platform at what time?

"You write YouTube a letter and the content gets removed within eight hours," explains Bell. "But the site is so vast that the next day it's up on the platform again, posted by another user. One solution is to write software based on keywords that recognizes what content is up there. If it can recognize it, then it can be monetized.

"The technology of rights management today is not yet perfect," Bell continues. "So what we need to do in the meantime is to distinguish between 'fair use,' 'popular use' and 'reasonable use.' Identify what people want to do with those rights, and then package and market those rights accordingly."

This all makes sense, but I can't help but wonder if the studios are overthinking this a little. They are obsessed with their intellectual properties, and justifiably so. But we're not just dealing with IP piracy, we're dealing with a social lifestyle phenomenon.

"Everyone wants to consume their media the way they want to consume it. You can't control that," acknowledges Stefanie Henning, senior vp, global marketing and new media for Fox Television Studios. "But we do want an environment where consumers can get to our content in the best format possible on a platform that we're able to monetize."

Instead of waiting for YouTube to come up with a viable solution or worse yet, fighting the way consumers have grown accustomed to doing things, perhaps the studios should embrace it.

I'm not saying that the studios stop monitoring content posted on YouTube. Rather, I'm suggesting that content owners like the studios give consumers the same tools they've grown to expect from sites like YouTube.

"Users want to be passionate about what their interests are. The habit of sharing them has become a cultural phenomenon," says Richard Rosenblatt, founder and former chairman of MySpace. "Online Communities like YouTube, MySpace and me.TV are all about embracing self-expression."

Whether studios like it or not, users are going to find ways to rip off clips from favorite television shows like NBC's The Office. So let's give it to them. The TV studios already have the eyeballs and the advertising inventory. They also have branded content that keeps users coming back. Logically, they should be able to sell advertising, no matter where the audience is. The studios need make video clips available on their Web sites—not just what they want people to see, which they are already doing, but what people want to see.

Equally important, they need to provide the video-embed codes so users can share the content on any community pages they want. If users go to the studio's host site only once to get the codes to share on their community pages, it doesn't matter. Because with the right technology, the studio's host site can stream advertising to those feeds as part of the user experience.

Once users discover that some of the coolest clips from their favorite TV shows are posted online via the studio's site immediately after a show airs, the amount of unauthorized uploading of video content on sites like YouTube should diminish.

Better yet, the networks will have engaged thousands of users legitimately to virally market their content all over the Internet—just as they're already doing thanks to sites like YouTube.

To take it one step further, it wouldn't surprise me if the studios find ways to sign users up and reward "power users" for influencing the communities they reach—just like marketing practices in the early days of the Internet.


Stolen from a recent article by Michael Goldstein:
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