By Dave Adamson in Reader
Posted in Uncategorized on July 20, 2008 at 5:03 pm
A colleague recently took an interest in my N95 phone, having bought himself a different make/model of phone.
This should have been an interesting conversation really, except it seem to be reduced to an ongoing series of bizarre challenging statements, thusly:
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By Dave Adamson in Reader
Posted in Uncategorized on July 3, 2008 at 9:33 pm
Yes, yes, I know Sharon Jackson has written a blog about this, but I thought I’d chip in with my own two pennies worth.
I’ve just read the same article that Sharon has mentioned and I found this to be the most bizarre moment in IT that I’ve ever come across.
“When it initiated legal action in March 2007 Viacom said it had identified about 160,000 unauthorised clips of its programmes on the website, which had been viewed more than 1.5 billion times.” (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7488009.stm)
Hold on… Viacom want access to the viewing data on ANY video on Youtube!
What for?
If just 160,000 video clips have been viewed 1.5 billion times, how many times do they think ALL THE VIDEOS ON YOUTUBE will have been watched? Why ANY video on Youtube? What data will be used? How about when someone starts watching a video and then changes their mind? What about approved copyright footage? Or is that excluded from the definition of any video on Youtube?
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