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Vlog TV on Denver Public Access 
OMG! It’s BrowseTV years later! 
 It’s basically a call-in request-a-youtube-video show. Viewers call in and drop the names of their favorite YouTube or other videos and the VJs play them over the air. If the video contains any profanity, such as when they showed Shoes (below), the VJs mute the audio. You can see the OS X volume graphic appear briefly when they do it.
 (via Vlog TV Denver | Negatendo.Net) thx, revgeorge!

Vlog TV on Denver Public Access

OMG! It’s BrowseTV years later!

It’s basically a call-in request-a-youtube-video show. Viewers call in and drop the names of their favorite YouTube or other videos and the VJs play them over the air. If the video contains any profanity, such as when they showed Shoes (below), the VJs mute the audio. You can see the OS X volume graphic appear briefly when they do it.

(via Vlog TV Denver | Negatendo.Net) thx, revgeorge!

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Climb the Charts, Schmimb the Charts  A record will hit the top of the Bilboard charts on or shortly after its release — there is no “chart climbing”. Infovis by Mike Frumin

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Climb the Charts, Schmimb the Charts

A record will hit the top of the Bilboard charts on or shortly after its release — there is no “chart climbing”. Infovis by Mike Frumin

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Arizona Judge Rejects RIAA's Copyright Infringement, Distribution Claims

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U.S. District Court Judge Neil V. Wake denied the RIAA’s request for a summary judgment against a couple who had copied music files from their CDs onto their computer and downloaded file-sharing programs. [More]

Affirming this would create a good common-sense precedent favoring music consumers. The ruling obviates assertions that merely making files accessible equals piracy. This is reasonable on two grounds:

  1. Accessibility doesn’t result in damages until actual dissemination occurs. (Even here, there are grey areas. Do streaming and downloading both qualify as infringing ‘distribution’?)
  2. File sharing software often defaults to sharing user’s files without adequate disclosure, making the user herself a potential victim. With any legal duty in checking application settings uncertain - guilty findings should require demonstration of specific intent.

The RIAA should stop coercing consumers and courts into believing what was fair use (backing up music/videos and exhibiting them in non-commercial settings) is now theft; that lacking full awareness of what your file-share software exposes rises to piracy; or that restricting digital content when there’s demonstrable demand at a premium for unencumbered access is good customer service. Once they straighten that situation out, I will endorse their efforts to tackle collegiate cartels and bootleggers.

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…people have been asking the wrong question for years. They have been so focused on resolution, and counting pixels and lines, that they have forgotten about frame rate. Perceived resolution = pixels x replacement rate. A 2K image at 48 frames per second looks as sharp as a 4K image at 24 frames per second … with one fundamental difference: the 4K/24 image will judder miserably during a panning shot, and the 2K/48 won’t. Higher pixel counts only preserve motion artifacts like strobing with greater fidelity. They don’t solve them at all.