Written by Jackson West
Posted Monday, February 19, 2007 at 2:16 PM PT

Keeping the Cap on Bud.TV

Bud.tv, which critics including NewTeeVee lambasted for their byzantine age verification checks, apparently doesn’t infringe nearly well enough on your privacy for the likes of state attorney generals.

Now 21 states have issued a call for Anheuser-Busch to make it more restrictive. Can we also get them to pass a law against bad content while they’re at it?

YouTube Killer Redux: Fox, NBC and Viacom are once again trying to get together to build a YouTube killer, with the major sticking point being that Viacom is just so mad at Fox for buying MySpace. Meanwhile, YouTube’s anti-piracy tool will apparently only be available to companies that have signed agreements with them, effectively telling smaller rights holders to kiss off. Apparently Google only respects your copyright if you’ve actually got the legal and regulatory muscle to hold their feet to the fire.

In other news: NBC Universal is looking to be more “Customer-centric,” and if you think that means a focus on you, the viewer, you’re forgetting that NBC makes content for advertisers, not the audience. Microsoft announces video sharing site ClipRoller about three years too late. TV Week points out that with Anystream and Cauldron getting hitched, online video companies could be moving into the merger phase. And digital video startup Avidence, which is apparently focused on white-label DV solutions for the enterprise, scores a $5 million Series A round.

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Comments (4)

“…with the major sticking point begin that Viacom is just so mad at Fox for buying MySpace.”

I’m just saying: $25,000.00 a year to start and you can have the best darn editor the world will ever know.

Frank 'viperteq' Young — 2:54 PM on February 19, 2007 Reply
Why pay when we can get web-based copy editing for free? :-) (thanks for the fix, frank)

Paul Kapustka, NewTeeVee — 3:42 PM on February 19, 2007 Reply
Was Cliproller surprised to find out they were owned by Microsoft, and was Soapbox jealous?

matt schulte — 5:55 AM on February 20, 2007 Reply
It will be interesting to see if Big Media can make a YouTube Killer work. There are so many deep suspicions between them all, not just Viacom v. FOX.

I wouldn’t be surprised if they all signed deals with seperate companies or just tried to leverage their own platforms the way Viacom is now: CBS – YouTube, NBC – Yahoo!, etc.

Also, where’s Disney’s ABC in all of this?

John / SocialNext — 9:46 AM on February 20, 2007 Reply

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