UK’s ioko VoD with DRM
p2p news / p2pnet:- Britain’s ioko says it’s launching Europe’s first “secure and legal peer-to-peer” Video-on-Demand (VoD) system with Kontiki.
The company doesn’t explain what an illegal p2p VoD service is, but it does say it’s teamed up with Kontiki set up to:
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Another start-up with Kontiki on board is Mike Homer and Marc Andreesen’s Open Media Network, “a free public service designed to help you enjoy a broad selection of movies, public TV and radio, video blogs and podcasts while protecting producer’s copyrights”.
OMN says, “content is managed centrally on the Kontiki platform, preventing unseemly, illegal, or rights-violating content from making its way to mass public consumption”.
ioko and Kontiki say they’ll work together to “deliver tailored services to design, develop and manage dynamic Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) and VoD solutions for a broad spectrum of media companies, varying in size”.
Kontiki is owned by Homer, an ex-senior AOL vp.
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See:-
ioko – ioko delivers Europe’s first secure peer-to-peer Video-on-Demand system with partner Kontiki, September 9, 2005
free public service – Open Media Network, with DRM, April 26, 2005
September 14th, 2005 at 9:05 pm
I wonder what sort of Charlie Romeo Alpha Papa they’ll try to fob off as “Premium Content”, one has to wonder. When the TV advertising folk start talking about 20 and 30 minute long adverts for some sort of TiVo like service, you have to wonder who would want to watch a commercial of that length. Would these idiots find themselves inundated with 30 minute commercials trying to sell Hummers (or a Hummer Wanna-be ) with gas prices in such flux and upward trends? Or other equally dumb stuff? Along with crud no one would want to sit through, let alone contemplate using the bandwidth for it. I get depressed enough over the stuff I can’t affford in the 30 SECOND commercials, I’m sure I’d be thinking of offing myself if I had to sit through one THAT long, for crying out loud. And really dumb old movies just wouldn’t fly. We get enough of that on cable, no need to suck up bandwidth for that. Wait and see what they offer commercially, and what’s available for free and see if you can tell the difference, unless you’re willing to pay thru the nose for anything.
September 15th, 2005 at 5:52 am
“content is managed centrally on the Kontiki platform”
So… They’ve got an open door into your pc to see what you’ve got huh? Wonder how wide that door is, and just what they’ll be able to look at or for.
Wonder how many hrs it’ll take before it’s hacked?