Hello Christian,

On 4/12/06, Christian Wach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 12 Apr 2006, at 13:43, Pete Prodoehl wrote:

> Nerissa (TheVideoQueen) wrote:
>> If you link to videos that I host and pay for bandwidth then you
>> are stealing bandwidth.
>
> One of the problems is see is that some folks have the above opinion,
> that others are stealing their bandwidth. If this is so, is the
> correct
> solution that people should copy your video to their server and
> provide
> the bandwidth for it? That would upset the other half of the folks,
> the
> ones who get upset when someone copies their video to their own server
> and would prefer they just link to their video, so they can track
> it and
> see the stats...
>
> So what's the solution that will satisfy both groups?

Ask the creator of the video/blog what they would prefer?


I don't think that this can be a long term solution.  The reason is that it doesn't scale.

Imagine that you, as a vlogger, start getting 1000's of requests per day.  How could you possibly keep up with that?  (Especially if you aren't making a profit off of it?)

This is one of the things the Creative Commons solves.  And although I like the Creative Commons licenses, I have a feeling that (although ALOT of people here will and do use it) not everyone here will use it.  (And the aim here is to create a solution for everyone, regardless of whether I this everyone should be using copylefted licenses like some of the Creative Commons licenses :-)  )

To make it scale, it needs to be automated.  To make it automated, it could be done by making s "language" that expresses this in a machine-readable form.  I.e., a machine readable for that expresses the vloggers "permissions", "requirements", and "restrictions".  ( I.e., a machine readable license.)
 

I honestly think a lot of these problems arise through lack of
communication,
as seems to have been demonstrated by the whole Veoh thread - once they
showed that they would comply with people's wishes regarding their
content,
opinion shifted significantly towards the positive. This may prove an
object-
lesson in how to conduct such matters: ask first.

Christian




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