In the wake of YouTube there is yet another video site I’ve come across.
Veoh (yes, in beta form, as is just about everything these days when developers are trying to get conversational traction) has a unique perspective — it offers long-form movies you can download.
I have no idea of the legality of this, as one of the FAQs on the site says they will take down copyrighted material posted without the copyright holder’s permission.
I started re-watching Secretary with James Spader and Maggie Gyllenhaal, a fabulous movie, but had to head off to a client meeting. I could have downloaded it, but that would involve yet another piece of proprietary software on my computer (you can only play a movie off-line through the special player). Plus I don’t have time and more importantly I worry about the copyright implications.
I know that lawyers acting for Daniela Cicarelli (one of the ‘performers’ in the Daniela Cicarelli & Tato Malzoni video) have tried to ban YouTube/Google from playing/hosting the controversial video and have failed miserably (I found it easily on another video website) so I wonder how soon it will be before the film industry weighs in and starts suing sites like Veoh. Even though Veoh uses peer-to-peer technology (kind of like BitTorrent but more robust), I can’t believe they are absolved from any liability, especially as they say they adhere to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).
And since you can now encourage your friends to watch only the ‘best bits’ of YouTube videos the whole issue of ‘artistic control’ by directors and producers also comes into question — why bother creating a plot, sub-plot, developing characterisation, etc., if your friends are only going to recommend you watch between 53:15 and 61:12 (the ‘best bits’ where the hero saves the girl, the baddie gets eaten by the ravenous bug-blatter beast from Traal, and so on).
As Maggie Gyllenhaal found out, eventually bottoms are going to get spanked…
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