Webcasting and YOUR Digital Rights
Reading Webcasting Woes, a recent post in Ken Camp's Digital Common Sense, I followed a link to a fascinating article written by Andy Oram
from O'Reilly. Ken asks how many podcasters have concerns about
webcasting. Excellent question. The link is to Andy Oram's
article, The Problem With Webcasting. From the very first paragraph of that article:
This is more than protection, a la
Creative Commons, copyrighting, or trademarking. This goes to who owns
the access, and how; in some cases being persuasively sold (by
big huge greedy companies known as Baby Bells, or Regional Bell
Operating Companies) as the very distribution channel itself.
Distribution channel meaning access, the delivery of the net itself to
your machine. Think of delivery to you as a form of casting, webcasting, so to speak.
And for that paragraph alone as a tease, you should read Andy Oram's entire article. Thanks to Ken Camp -- without having seen the link in his blog, I might have missed this excellent dsicussion altogether.