Too bad he is a hypocrite.
http://www.digitalsociety.org/2010/11/google-hypocrisy-on-content-blocking/
[ George, your analogy appears faulty. The issue with the Syabas
box (which you discuss in the article linked from your link
above) related -- as far as I know -- to their commercial use of
YouTube APIs -- a specialized access mechanism for which
licensing agreements for commercial applications are not unusual
nor typically inappropriate in a wide variety of contexts.
The issue with network television blocking of Google TV is that
the Google TV box is simply behaving like any other standard Web
browser with Flash capability, and is attempting to access the
free network online videos in the same manner as anyone else
using a Web browser. Google TV is not attempting to use any
special APIs to access those services. In essence, even though
Google TV is just like any other PC in terms of its access
method, it is being selectively blocked.
If Syabas had used the same technique -- behaving as a
conventional PC and accessing YouTube just like any ordinary user
with a browser, not via YouTube APIs, I doubt very much that
Google would have had any complaints about the situation.
-- Lauren Weinstein
NNSquad Moderator ]
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Google CEO Slams Broadcast Nets re Blocking of Google TV
http://bit.ly/bg91qI (Mediaweek)
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