[ NNSquad ] Re: Google CEO Slams Broadcast Nets re Blocking of Google TV

["George Ou" <george_ou@lanarchitect.net>]

Too bad he is a hypocrite.
http://www.digitalsociety.org/2010/11/google-hypocrisy-on-content-blocking/

   [ George, your analogy appears faulty.  The issue with the Syabas
     box (which you discuss in the article linked from your link
     above) related -- as far as I know -- to their commercial use of
     YouTube APIs -- a specialized access mechanism for which
     licensing agreements for commercial applications are not unusual
     nor typically inappropriate in a wide variety of contexts.

     The issue with network television blocking of Google TV is that
     the Google TV box is simply behaving like any other standard Web
     browser with Flash capability, and is attempting to access the
     free network online videos in the same manner as anyone else
     using a Web browser.  Google TV is not attempting to use any
     special APIs to access those services.  In essence, even though
     Google TV is just like any other PC in terms of its access
     method, it is being selectively blocked.

     If Syabas had used the same technique -- behaving as a
     conventional PC and accessing YouTube just like any ordinary user
     with a browser, not via YouTube APIs, I doubt very much that
     Google would have had any complaints about the situation.

         -- Lauren Weinstein
            NNSquad Moderator ]

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Google CEO Slams Broadcast Nets re Blocking of Google TV

http://bit.ly/bg91qI  (Mediaweek)

--Lauren--
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