The Morning After

Trying to keep it real, I've come across a few snags that have certainly taken a little bit of the euphoria out of video podcasting. Actualy, it's become quite a hangover!

Bandwidth and DRM.

Got an email from my service provider, saying they don't allow streaming media on my hosting account. Either that or a promise to keep my podcast to under 2M and only have 2 users at one time. Yeah, right. I explained the nature of RSS means that the media is not streaming, and can be dished out ONE at a time, although I see a bottleneck already happening. Methinks some rules will have to be changed fairly quickly. In the mean time I admit I'm exploring options like Bittorent or paid media hosting. Any ideas? If you've susbscribed to our show and got it to work on your iPod or PSP or even the new XBOX great! Please let me know. Feedburner says there are a few of you already!

One day old and there are 10 subscribers! OK, two of them are me.

On the issue of rights, I take this very seriously but I'm afraid there are others (lawyers) who take it even more seriously. The bulk of our show is original content, or animation I have asked for and recieved specific rights to package within our podcast. I've also licensed and paid for several tracks from Freeplaymusic.com so I think I'm on the right track. It's our news segment, which I feel is very important to our show, that may contain clips garnered off the web to promote a film or DVD release or game or whatever. If regular TV laws apply then we'll see how entertainment shows get away with showing trailer clips, or even some shows air the entire trailer. If it's "news" then you can get away with a lot! You can be assured I'm going to keep a very close eye on this.