We're not talking about a technical protocol for delivery of video
content. We already have that. Jay is talking about a business protocal
for companys/organizations to REPUBLISH that content. 

On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 09:01:00PM -0800, Lucas Gonze wrote:
> On 1/3/07, Jay dedman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > "There is, incidentally, a protocol for Web-based aggregation of video
> > content."
> 
> Here are two other protocols for web-based aggregation of video content:
> http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt
> http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2616.txt
> 
> Here is an explanation of that protocol at a hight level:
> http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/doc/deeplinking.html
> 
> Here is a quote from that explanation:
> "This issue is important because attempts to limit deep linking are in
> fact risky for two reasons:
> 
>    1.
> 
>       The policy is at risk of failure. The Web is so large that any
> policy enforcement requires considerable automated support from
> software to be practical. Since a deep link looks like any other link
> to Web software, such automated support is not practical.

Which is why there are computer readable versions of Creative Commons
licenses.  Anyone who builds a complex application that can read,
republish, watermark and slap ads around video content can also figure out a
way to respect copyrights of that content. 

>    2.
> 
>       The Web is at the risk of damage. The hypertext architecture of
> the Web has brought substantial benefits to the world at large. The
> onset of legislation and litigation based on confusion between
> identification and access has the potential to impair the future
> development of the Web."A

Look, I'm no fan of government regulation of the Internet and this is
not a technical problem that needs regulating. No one is saying that
deep linking in of itself is a problem.
The confusion lies in that a company can access YOUR content and identify lots 
of revenue by republishing it with advertising. 

-eddie

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