Thanks to the people who took time to fill me in on what blinkx is
doing that is wrong.
This has caused me to think a lot about licensing issues again. To me
its never cut and dry, and the intellectual rights laws are not setup
to protect us automatically, tragically we cannot sit back and expect
I have tried a few searches from the material that they have copied
from us and while I would assume a high margin of error, I'm pretty
sure no audio scans have been transcribed. Al least I haven't
witnessed any sign of that feature yet.
On Oct 10, 2005, at 10:41 AM, Kent Bye wrote:
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Here's what's total bullshit about blinx to me (besides the
implication of agreements with people they have no agreements with):
They are a commercial entity and they are republishing my content
without permission and without attribution in violation of the
license on my work.
Seems pretty
Three thoughts on the blinkx issue:
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What I wonder is why did two journalists get it so wrong?
Were the journalists complicit or just plain negligent?
If you want to investigate this further, then I would get the
journalists on the record for why they didn't vet some of their
reporting that
Here is the issue. According to this press release on their site:
"At my blinkx.tv, users can upload and store their video blogs free
of charge; they can also enter a search and save it as a "channel",
which will be automatically and perpetually updated with relevant
footage. This personal "c
And it couldnt just be slightly sloppy journalism rather than anything
sinister? Who says blinkx mentioned mefeedia relationship to the
journalist? If they did mention it, maybe it was just as an example of
the sorts of video that the service can search, rather than stating
there was a business rel
Correct me if Im wrong, but blinkx appears to allow anybody to submit
a url to be included, and it doesnt ask for details of who is
submitting it:
http://www.blinkx.tv/beta/PodcastSubmit/
So just about anything could end up on there right?
Oh, back to the debate about the downsides of syndicatin
