DRM In Videos

Long time no posting, so here are some things which go through my head in the moment:
I’m currently playing around with some different WebTv sites. Especially NBC’s HULU.com gets really annoying if you don’t hang around in the US right now. You can use the site like there is nothing wrong with it, but as soon as you start a video, it shows up some out-of-territory message. Sure, it would be no problem to spoof a us ip, but it’s way to much work, since downloading a show from one of the torrent websites is way faster, without any ad breaks and perfect quality. I’m kinda used to watch some late night talk show before going to bed (in the morning, heh), but it gets impossible over here. Cable doesn’t carry any US channels besides CNN. On the other hand it wouldn’t probably make sense to translate these shows, since they are quite close related to current events. So why not letting them free. It’s somewhat crazy, that people are forced to go illegal, even if they don’t want to.
Since I mentioned ad breaks: Joost’s ad breaks are the most annoying thing ever! They are having a tool, which is the dream of all the people who once raved about interactive television. And all they do is using the same annoying coke commercial over and over, like on good old television. There is also no way to skip it, so I’m just tuning the volume down and do something else till it’s done. Joost is genius, but their creative power seems to be just blown up by the technology.
They would have the chance to battle broadband providers who try pushing their set top boxes in households, if they would be fast enough to come up with a world wide television distribution. If they would put their technology in a set top box, stop limiting the content, and get the technology merged with the torrent protocol, they would have the ultimate tv killer application. And I’d buy one today, just to get my late night shows going

Stumble it!