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Internet television's taking on more reliable and legal forms
10:00 am Mar 6 - by Tim Anderson
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Internet television has been on a two-step-forward-one-step-back journey since video began streaming.
Independent television websites such as tv-links, sidereel, and tvduck provide links to streaming videos across sites like YouTube, which break the videos into bite-sized 10-minute chunks to squeeze into YouTube’s criteria. Media distributors have begun cracking down on these YouTube clips, todou links, and megavideo streams, to serious consequence.
The UK website tv-links.co.uk pioneered the streaming internet television phenomenon, providing an easy search interface which provided links to streaming videos for almost any television series. In October 2007, police arrested owner David Rock on charges of facilitating copyright infringement and the website was shut down. Fortunately, as these independent sites dwindle in number and capability with these crackdowns, more legal and reliable resources are becoming available.
Both ABC and NBC have their own embedded players with full episodes of their most popular shows, peppering in short 15 to 30 second commercials. Sites like hulu.com are similar, streaming popular shows with limited commercial breaks. As distribution of television becomes more streamlined and available on the internet, it’s ‘on demand’ style of viewing will continue to revolutionize the way programs are seen.
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