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From what I gleaned from a

EmmaZahn — Sun, 09 Sep 2012 21:14:44 +0000

From what I gleaned from a quick visit to their site, ustream, like Hulu, offers both free and subscription viewing of programs from both broadcast and cable channels. If you don't have cable or DTV, it is the only way some people watch tv and for others the preferred way.

But that isn't really the point which is that content providers are using bots to deny service to anyone who they think have violated copyrights. Since anything anyone writes or produces online is technically copyrighted, it would be fairly simple for someone or some organization like Anonymous to shut down any site that quoted another, say like dagblog or Ramona's Voices?

Scary, right?

Very interesting. What a

Ramona — Sun, 09 Sep 2012 20:38:49 +0000

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Very interesting. What a mess! But why was U-Stream the only source of live-streaming for an important awards program? It sounds like there was another source that might have been safer, but it required payment. Wonder why they didn't go that route?

Yes. This is our current

Doctor Cleveland — Sun, 09 Sep 2012 02:04:37 +0000

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Yes. This is our current copyright-protection regime in a nutshell.