And people wouldn’t be streaming family guy if FOX would allow hulu.com to host a video from last month.

These companies want to STOP users from watching their own stuff then they get mad when users try to share it around.

I am with justin.tv and and ustream :D
I HATE livestream cause all the BS hoops you have to jump through…

Umm.. well take my company for example launching in March 2011. We are producing wrestling events, streaming them live on our website and then making them available OnDemand. If everybody believed in a free culture, I wouldnt have a business.. Why do you believe you should get something for nothing? Can you not afford it or do you like being a bum. My company will provide free content on a daily basis so monthly Pay Per View events is where our money will be made.

How do the content creators, retrieve cost and gain reward from their invested ideas and effort? In one sense they place “their finished product” in the marketplace for sale. Now, every Tom, Dick and Jim come along…see “Harry Potter”, copy it and also place their copies in the marketplace for sale. Tom, Dick and Jim spent no time “thinking up the idea, researching the steps to make it happen, and hiring people to make it.” Tom, Dick and Jim never see the the hidden steps of technology. Let’s call this the X factor. Tom and friends don’t really care about it. To simplify, the X factor is mental, physical and financial debt. Tom and friends only care about the product of technology, the book, what they see: content. However, their rip-off help kill the spirit of the inventor and others who dare to create.

The inventor might have mortgaged life savings and those of supportive friends. The illegal copies of Tom and Friends are selling like hotcakes and their firm grows wealthy. The person that created the original is never able to recoup enough money to pay off debt or survive. The illegal copies are covering or blocking the market for sale of the original.

Today, hardware technology like the Internet makes it easy for people not to see or ever think about who is really hurt by intellectual copyright infringement. Websites like this enable the masses to vote by offering opinon about something we have not sweated over, invented and have no real vested interest.

I don’t believe those who are unsympathetic to Livestream really ever stopped to think about what happended to young Philo (Mr. Television) Farnsworth (at the hands of RCA) or Dr. Armstrong who invented FM Radio, or the man that invented the Sears socket wrench. Young people today are not immune from intellectual infringement. Did You Tube reward the 3rd grader for her or his idea..if the story is true. Ostensibly You Tube made a lot money off that idea.

Copyright and patent laws have a history and much of it was developed to help protect future creative minds. You are the future. Let us recall that technology is threefold and using it makes us capable of blocking one or more of our senses that make us human.

I don’t think we pay royalties to the carpenter and plumber and electrician that built this house, so I’m not completely understanding the differences here. the band and the construction crew performed their job. They both got paid..should be end of story. But, the record industry decided to record the performance and make copies to sell. They convinced the law to cooperate while they manipulated the recording industry for years.

Now that everyone can make the recording, they still want to own the rights…who died and made them god?

I bought a beatles album in 1964, I am still paying royalties on the tunes that are on that album, every time they are played on the radio, in a bar, used in background sound. It’s merely money laundering for the people in the recording industry that don’t actually do anything.

The reality is that copyright as you all know it has served it’s purpose and has done it’s time. It’s time to dump the middle man, that model no longer works, and we don’t need a middleman (telling us what to listen to). The model needs to be adjusted.

In Canada, tariff 22 is still being worked on (over 10 years) to allow a collection of royalties from the Internet. However, the way it’s coming out, it would be better for the musician that it didn’t exist. It basically sells their rights for peanuts and gives others the right to make money on the process (sort of like radio).

The recorded record openned up music to so many that could not otherwise have heard what was going on. It made the world more music aware. And as you can see, it has thrived, however, there’s more to that element than a pristine CD recording. There’s performance..

We’re back to pay for performance.