Content Ownership Discussions

Posted by Darren on Feb 19, 2009 • (Comments)

It seems as if everywhere you turn these days, there are lawsuits and memes about content ownership and distribution.   There is one landmark trial occuring (Pirate Bay) as we speek and in a non-legal system, Hulu has pulled out of Boxee.

This is a very hot topic and wanted to link to a few of the discussions.

In terms of Boxee/Hulu, everything is available for a price, so if Boxee wanted to pony up a few bucks for Hulu aggregated content, I’m sure they wouldn’t turn it down.

Taken from Techmeme:

the Hulu situation (Boxee Blog) —  we love Hulu. they have built a great product and brand (including one the best Superbowl ads this year). since our early days in private alpha, Hulu was the most requested site by our users. so we built support for browsing Hulu on boxee, reached out to Hulu …Discussion: Rakesh Agrawal’s Blog, TechSpot, paidContent.org, O’Reilly Radar, Freedom to Tinker blogs, Lifehacker, The Apple Core, Digits, Techdirt, Technologizer, 9 to 5 Mac, atmaspheric, MacDailyNews, CNET News, Gadgetell, Paul Colligan’s …, TUAW, Engadget, Gizmodo, Obsessable, Epicenter, HipMojo.com, Edible Apple, Online Video Watch, GeekTonic, Download Squad, MediaMemo, Contentinople, ReadWriteWeb, TechCrunch and digg.com
The Pirate Bay Trial – First Day in Court Discussion: Threat Level, Gizmodo, Rick Falkvinge, p2pnet, BBC and digg.com
Pirate Bay Plea: Stop Hacking the Music Industry! —  There can be no doubt.  This week has seen a level of support for The Pirate Bay that has taken almost everyone by surprise.  Sure, everyone knows it is the biggest BitTorrrent site and sure, the people who run it are some of the biggest characters …Discussion: The Register, p2pnet and P2P Blog

50% of Charges Against Pirate Bay Dropped —  What has been shown in court today is that the prosecutor cannot prove that the .torrent files he is using as evidence actually used The Pirate Bay’s tracker.  Many of the screenshots being used clearly state there is no connection to the tracker.

A quite active topic of “Hulu Boxee” on Twitter:  http://search.twitter.com/search?q=hulu+boxee
For those interested in content ownership and business development, these links should provide amazing insight into many different opinions of these areas.
Enjoy.

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  • I own an Apple TV and put Boxee on it a couple months back. It really is an amazing product with a slick interface and is setup to be a very innovative service. When I read last night (via Twitter) that Boxee was being forced to remove Hulu from its roster, I nearly cried. Out of all the video services offered, Hulu was definitely my primo choice for aggregated video content.

    I simply don't understand this move by Hulu, or better yet, the content providers that are highly invested in Hulu (Fox and NBC). I know that Hulu as a business couldn't do anything about the decision from above and regretfully pulled itself from Boxee, but it still makes no sense.

    Boxee was not running any additional ads on top of the ones currently displayed on Hulu, so it was not diluting their video content. Nor was Boxee taking any cut from the ad dollars brought in by Hulu. If anything, by having Hulu on Boxee, it should have made those ads more costly, as they were now getting more eyeballs on the ads. Plus, I know this move will definitely hurt Hulu as a brand from the viewpoint of Boxee fanboys. (although I still heart Hulu)
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