IDEA #9 Revisit: Online Videos Archived For Life
By Steve Poland • February 28, 2007
Liz Gannes of NewTeeVee (GigaOM network) has a great article bringing up the fact that online video widgets (embeds from YouTube for example) have some short-comings — the video sometimes disappears (whether it be copyright / licensing issues; or the user that posted the video pulls it down; etc).
The original concept of my “IDEA #9 - Pay-Per-Play Videos (PPPV): The YouTube Differentiator” was this very problem. I imagined an online video archive service that would always have the video available — even if it is old and/or not very popular at all. The person that wanted to view the video, would see a series of screencaps from within the video itself and choose whether they’d like to see the full video by either viewing ads in the video, or paying a micro-payment to view the video.
But maybe that’ll never be the case — YouTube seems like they would like to host your video for forever, as long as it is truly yours (and not breaking copyrights). Maybe I’m dreaming of this perfect world as well, in which every published content (video / audio / text) is available to be seen/heard again anytime in the future.
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Still in Beta though, in the original sense of the word.
Imagine if there was a “way back machine” for every TV channel. You pick the time / date / channel and you can watch what was on at that exact second. Maybe this needs a post of its own.
Unfortunately, all of this is teetering right on the edge of that slippery slope that is DRM and all of the copyrights challenges that the big names in media have been fighting about and yanking stuff off of said YouTube’s and other (to include, presumably) archive sites.
Is the question then “How to preserve ‘access’, while protecting IP holders rights?”
~James
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