Thanks, Mike. I'm sure we're all waiting to get this dealt with. mikehudack wrote:
>Hey guys, > >I just got off the phone with Dmitri Shapiro, the CEO of Veoh. I >tracked him down (thanks to a few great people) to discuss this >situation because it seems like much of the video Veoh has been >collecting comes from blip.tv -- and a lot of our users have asked us >to do something about it. > >Dmitri has just joined the group and will send an e-mail shortly that >will hopefully start us down the road to resolving this situation. > >Yours, > >Mike >Co-founder, blip.tv > >--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, "Peter Van Dijck" ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>Let me put it this way. Imagine you are starting an online video >>company (isn't everyone these days?). >> >>Is it ok to take all YouTube's feeds, download all the videos in >>there, transcode them and host them on your own site? No. >> >>Is it ok to take all Google video's feeds, download all the videos in >>there, transcode them and host them on your own site? No. >> >> >>Is it ok to take individual videobloggers' feeds, download all the >>videos in there, transcode them and host them on your own site? No. >>Except if their license were to allow that quite explicitly. >> >>You'd be crazy to do that. >> >>Peter >> >>On 4/7/06, Peter Van Dijck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >>>On 4/7/06, Charles Iliya Krempeaux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> >>>> Hello, >>>> >>>>I know many people probably won't like hearing this, but.... >>>> >>>>I don't know if it is possible to have "people" subscribe to >>>> >>>> >your feed and > > >>>>not have other site's aggregate and redistribute your feed >>>> >>>> >without your > > >>>>control. >>>> >>>> >>>Ahem. >>> >>>Charles, you seem to misunderstand the situation here. >>> >>>A feed with video enclosures implies this: >>>- yes, you can download those videos to watch them. >>>- yes, you can (like Bloglines) aggregate the text, linking back to >>>the original. >>>- no, you can NOT download the video, transcode it, and host it on >>>*your* commercial website. >>> >>>I think that's fairly clearcut. >>> >>>Peter >>> >>> >>> > > > > > > > > >Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > > -- Brad Webb, Founder/CTO vSocial (http://www.vsocial.com) 51 W. Third Street, #301 Tempe, AZ 85281 (480) 967-9543 - Direct Line (480) 967-9575 - Fax Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
