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Video Sharing – is it illegal?

This VCR is so old, it’s clock flashes 11:00… From boingboing.net: a discussion about video sharing via Nightline circa 1981. Yep. Though it’s pretty dry stuff, it’s essentially the same discussion that’s going on now, albeit sharing is just a little easier nowadays. There’s also some small measure of irony that the videos are being shared on Youtube.com Essentially, a rep from MCA and a lawyer discuss whether it’s illegal to use a Sony Betamax machine to record television shows. After all, back in the day home taping was going…

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Newtek’s SpeedEDIT 1.2

For those who don’t know, Newtek ushered in the video desktop era with the Amiga based Toaster, and later the Toaster Flyer, which added NLE capabilities to their already brilliant “studio in a desktop” concept. They continued after the demise of the Amiga by working on the Video Toaster for Windows, which was later shortened to the VT, which offers a suite of software, combined with an uncompressed video I/O card and switcher.They recently separated the editing software TEd away from the VT hardware, and given the user a software…

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