StevenStark.com
Technical Blog for Joomla, LAMP and Flash Development. ALSO includes Application, interactives and game development.

...... Navigation

  • Home
  • Flash
  • Open Source
  • The Team
  • Background
  • Services
  • Portfolio
  • Projects
  • Contact

  • ...... Technical Blog

  • CMS (13)
  • Experiments (1)
  • Flash (9)
  • LAMP (1)
  • Misc (8)
  • Tutorials (5)


  • ...... Archives

  • April 2009
  • October 2008
  • March 2008
  • February 2008
  • January 2008
  • November 2007
  • June 2007
  • May 2007
  • April 2007
  • March 2007
  • February 2007
  • December 2006
  • August 2006
  •  

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    < Free Education Proper XML feeds in wordpress >

    The surge of Streaming tv / video websites

    There are many websites with the same idea as YouTube, and they all have the same problem: users uploading copyright videos. This problem has increased, however, as there are many websites now listing links to these illegally uploaded videos. This will soon change how these sites are run.

    These listing websites are simple to create and have instant high traffic, however hard to keep the links online and updated. Some sites have more than one link to videos to get around this.

    These sites need to remember that they will not be able to keep this up for long. Technically they are legal because they are merely linking to content on another server, much like how .torrent files linking to illegal downloads are legal. What this will cause, however, is increased security on these video networks. I predict that the courts are going to enforce that the YouTube like websites monitor their content vigorously. YouTube is actually currently facing a lawsuit to this effect.

    Here is a list of the tv, video, movie and anime videos that I know about:

    1. peekvid.com
    2. tv-links.co.uk
    3. anime.mangaspot.com (anime only)

    Here are the most common suppliers hosting illegal videos, searching their archives often works well.

    1. youtube.com
    2. veoh.com
    3. dailymotion.com

    If you know of any more websites, please link to them in the comments below.


    This entry was posted on Friday, May 4th, 2007 at 12:05 am and is filed under Misc.
    You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.

    © 2000 - 2008, Steven Stark of StevenStark.com
    This site is built using: | Wordpress | Flex | Wrapper | JSON | APACHE | MySQL | PHP |
    Tech Note: Content is being parsed from XHTML and rendered inside FLEX. Hosting provided by: BlueFur