Hi, While Zediva may have been an interesting attempt to exploit what seemed to be a semantic loophole in the copyright code, such a physical-copy-based model simply doesn't scale. Previous VOD schemes dating from the '80s on could never crack this problem beyond very limited tests.
- - Roger Brown Manager UCLA Instructional Media Collections & Services 46 Powell Library Los Angeles, CA 90095-1517 office: 310-206-1248 fax: 310-206-5392 [email protected] > >------------------------------ > >Message: 4 >Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2011 15:40:40 +0000 >From: "Shoaf,Judith P" <[email protected]> >Subject: Re: [Videolib] Zevida ordered shut down >To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> >Message-ID: > <3dbf4281403d7248b5da1c65dfbc51b9022e0...@ufexch-mbxn01.ad.ufl.edu> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > >Zediva was an interesting idea, anyway. As I recall , Zediva was focusing >on a market for streamed video of DVDs that had just been released, >before the other streaming services were allowed to offer them. It stands >to reason that it would be effectively attacked because it was stepping >on a lot of toes, from the premium channels that have first dibs on >presenting new films to stores and e-stores that get to sell the DVDs >before the streaming begins. I wonder if the technology will turn out to >be useful in another context, though. >I seem to recall an article in the 90s, before DVDs replaced VHS, about a >university that used a similar system to stream video to student >computers. I remember it involved a large number of VCRs in a room (not >sure who was feeding them) and I know that there was an option to capture >some of the stream (or that option was envisaged) because the article >spoke about students being able to insert a clip in an essay. Or did I >dream that? > >Judy Shoaf > > >-------------- next part -------------- >An HTML attachment scrubbed and removed. >HTML attachments are only available in MIME digests. > >End of videolib Digest, Vol 45, Issue 8 >*************************************** VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively discussion of issues relating to the selection, evaluation, acquisition,bibliographic control, preservation, and use of current and evolving video formats in libraries and related institutions. It is hoped that the list will serve as an effective working tool for video librarians, as well as a channel of communication between libraries,educational institutions, and video producers and distributors.
