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  Techcrunch 

  http://www.techcrunch.com/

  FIQL is a nice niche social network focused on music playlists. Users upload, categorize and share their playlists with others. People who view the playlists can buy songs through links to iTunes and other ... music services. But for the most part they can’t simply listen to the songs online, other than through somewhat cumbersome links to Napster and Rhapsody, which allow people to listen to songs for free with certain restrictions. Since listening to music on playlists has so many restrictions, the service hasn’t grown much - it has just 15,000 playlists from 50,000 registered users since launching in 2005. But at 9 AM PST I have a feeling they will be getting a whole bunch of new users and a lot more playlists when they launch a new product called FIQL TV. That’s because they figured out a brilliant, if somewhat obvious, end-around to copyright laws that restrict them from playing music outright: music videos hosted on third party video sites like YouTube. It’s widely known that musi   [More...] [Less...]

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  Downloading Top Gear Legally: Why I Joined the BBC 

  http://tv.theiet.org/technology/communications/1666.cfm

  Following the release of the BBC iPlayer, UK viewers are able to download and stream television programmes on demand. Previously, such content could only be viewed as a traditionally broadcast programme ... or, for some at least, as illegal downloads. Anthony Rose talks about his involvement with the BBC iPlayer project including his motivation for joining the BBC, the challenges that have been overcome and the problems that lie ahead for the next generation of the BBC iPlayer. Anthony Rose, Head of Digital Media Technology, BBC Anthony Rose was appointed Head of Digital Media Technology at the BBC in September 2007 where he became responsible for delivering the next generation of BBC iPlayer. Previously, Anthony was Chief Technology Officer at Kazaa/Altnet. During his six years with the organisation, his work included P2P networks, DRM-based content publishing and social networking services. Downloading Top Gear Legally: Why I Joined the BBC Anthony Rose An IET Young Professionals Event 2   [More...] [Less...]

  First added: 10 June 2008, by: Stewart Love  [Report as spam]

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  Tags:  anthony rose, bbc, iet.tv, iplayer, internet , streaming   [More...] [Less...]