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Google: make GooTube pay with DRM
p2pnet news view DRM | Advertising:- Google wants to “drag YouTube into profit” with yet another DRM (Digital Restrictions Management) consumer control programme. It wants to convince “music and film footage rights owners to make advertising revenue from their content rather than remove it from the video-sharing site for breach of copyright,” says the Guardian . And it hopes to do that with ContentID, a “fingerprinting system for rights holders that means YouTube can identify their material even when it has been altered and made part of user-generated content such as wedding videos or satirical clips”.
Continue reading »New Pirate Bay to Pay BitTorrent Seeders?
GGF CEO says BitTorrent seeders would be compensated for making content available to others. This past Tuesday was a sad day of sorts for the BitTorrent community after Swedish BitTorrent tracker site the Pirate Bay announced it was sailing into safer waters and going legit. Global Gaming Factory X AB (GGF) bought the site for over $16 million USD in cash and stock and said it plans to use the Pirate Bay to launch “new business models” that will ensure copyright holders are fairly compensated.
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