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A Florida teenager who used a webcam to live-stream his suicide Wednesday was reportedly encouraged
by other people on the Web site, authorities told ABCNews.com. nbsp; nbsp; quot;People were egging
him on and saying things like 'go ahead and do it, faggot,' said Wendy Crane, an investigator at
the Broward County Medical Examiner's office. nbsp; nbsp; Abraham Biggs, 19, of Pembroke Pines,
Fla., had been blogging on an online body-building message board and had linked to his page on
Justin.tv, a live video streaming Web site, where the camera rolled as he overdosed on prescription
pills, according to Crane. nbsp; nbsp; Biggs, who had reportedly been discussing his suicide on the
forums, also posted a suicide note on a body-building forum, which has since been taken down, in
which he wrote, quot;I hate myself and I hate living...quot; nbsp; nbsp; In the Web stream, Crane
said viewers saw a piece of a door frame -- which had splintered from the police kicking in the
teen's bedroom door -- hit Biggs, who is curled up on his bed and facing away from the camera.
nbsp; nbsp; quot;Then you see a police officer go in and check on him, and then the EMS pronounced
him dead,quot; said Crane... nbsp; nbsp; [cc: the wired]
Disney Fights Piracy on Site it Funded; 56.com, funded by Steamboat Ventures had
bootlegged Disney content like full-length copies of WALL-E up on the site. (The Wall Street Journal)
YouTube Testing HD Videos; video giant stealthily trying out the higher quality
720p format. (Epicenter
Blog) CNET teaches how to tweak your YouTube embeds for
HD playback.
BitGravity Launches Multi-View, Will Be Used on Diggnation; viewers can
choose from five different simultaneous video streams of the show. (emailed release)
BBC’s Local Video Plan Blocked; regulators say the the $100 million
project to add video bulletins to 65 local UK web sites would hurt video efforts of struggling
local newspapers. (paidContent)
DVD Sales Are Down; sales of the shiny discs off 9 percent during the third
quarter, Blu-Ray’s prospects even bleaker. (The New York Times)
Justin Timberlake’s SNL Skit Pulled Because of Music Clearances;
embeds of the Single Ladies sketch did disappear, but not because Timberlake wanted more
money. (LA
Times)
Mr. Internet Wants to Be the “Talk Soup” of Web Culture; created by
agency Crispin, Porter + Bogusky show will collect all manner of web-based stories and air on
Plum TV. (MediaWeek)
Gov. Sarah Palin has granted the traditional Thanksgiving pardon to one lucky turkey, but the video
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height="191" align="left" hspace="4" vspace="2" /Here's a story nobody likes to see. 19-year-old
Abraham K. Biggs overdosed on pills on a live webcam stream before hundreds of people on Wednesday
night, all while commenters on Justin.tv and bodybuilding.com encouraged him, apparently thinking
it was some kind of joke. He lay passed out on his webcam for hours until he appeared to stop
breathing, at which point the people watching realized it was no joke./p pSadly, this isn't the
first time something like this has happened. Followers of internet lore are surely familiar with a
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandon_Vedas"Brandon "I told u I was hardcore" Vedas/a, who
overdosed on drugs live on a webcam after having given his personal information out to the viewers
in case something went wrong. All were too afraid to get in trouble to call the authorities./p
pThere's definitely something about being on the internet that makes you feel cut off from and not
responsible for the people you're dealing with (see: YouTube commenters), but when you're watching
a real, live human on video doing something obviously damaging to themselves, it's completely
inexcusable to do nothing. And to egg them on, well, that's something those people will have to
deal with on their own. A sad story all around. [a
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In tandem with the release of the iPhone 2.2 firmware, Apple has published the iPod touch 2.2
update, a separate download through iTunes. The software contains most of the upgrades of its
iPhone equivalent, such as auto-correction toggle, mobile podcast downloads, and improvements to
Mail. Also present are a variety of security and stability fixes, for components like Safari,
Office Viewer and W...
In tandem with the release of the iPhone 2.2 firmware, Apple has published the iPod touch 2.2
update, a separate download through iTunes. The software contains most of the upgrades of its
iPhone equivalent, such as auto-correction toggle, mobile podcast downloads, and improvements to
Mail. Also present are a variety of security and stability fixes, for components like Safari,
Office Viewer and W...
In tandem with the release of the iPhone 2.2 firmware, Apple has published the iPod touch 2.2
update, a separate download through iTunes. The software contains most of the upgrades of its
iPhone equivalent, such as auto-correction toggle, mobile podcast downloads, and improvements to
Mail. Also present are a variety of security and stability fixes, for components like Safari,
Office Viewer and W...
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width="1" height="1" //divpPolice in Florida are investigating the death of an American teenager
after he appeared to take an overdose and die while broadcasting on video website Justin.tv./ppThe
19-year-old left a message on another website in which he described his mental anguish and was
encouraged to end his life by a number of other web users./ppMore than 180 people were watching
online as the teenager swallowed pills before collapsing on his bed and appearing to fall
unconscious. Only after he stopped moving did some viewers act on what they were seeing by calling
the local police to inform them of what was taking place./ppThe video stream continued to run until
police and emergency services arrived at the man's house, with footage showing them entering his
bedroom and inspecting the scene before filming stopped abruptly./ppIn a message posted on
bodybuilding.com, the man had described how he felt and explained why he intended to end his life.
In response, some other users of the site egged him on./pp"You want to kill yourself?" said one.
"Do it, do the world a favour and stop wasting our time with your mindless self-pity."/ppThe
messageboard on bodybuilding.com where he left the note appears to have been deleted, but many of
the comments left in response to it were unsympathetic. Reports also suggest that commenters on the
video website itself encouraged him to end his own life./ppIn response to the news, Justin.tv
– a web broadcasting service that allows anybody to create their own live
internet television channel – said that it had removed the footage after being
alerted to the situation./ppIn a statement on the company's website, chief executive Michael Siebel
made little further comment, merely saying that a "tragedy ... occurred within our community today"
and that "we respect the privacy of the broadcaster and his family during this challenging
time."/ppSuicide on the internet is a rare, if not entirely new phenomenon. a
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According to TorrentFreak, The
Dark Knight was the most pirated movie of 2008. Ummm, hooray? Somehow I doubt Warner Bros.
will include that stat on the DVD packaging. The movie’s been on and off the list of top
BitTorrented films throughout the summer as people took video camera footage of the film in
theaters or ripped it from screeners.
TorrentFreak’s Top Downloaded Movies on BitTorrent As of Nov. 16, 2008
Rank Last Week Title 1 (new) The Dark Knight 2 1 Traitor 3 4 Tropic Thunder 4 2 WALL-E 5 3 Step
Brothers 6 (new) Max Payne 7 9 The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor 8 6 The Chronicles of Narnia:
Prince Caspian 9 5 Taken 10 8 Burn After Reading
Over at
TV by the Numbers‘ breakdown of the most DVRed broadcast TV shows, McDreamy and crew
still dominate the list with 4.089 million viewers via DVRs for the week of Oct. 17-Nov. 2. As
TVbtN points out, Obama’s infomercial ran during this week but does not appear on this list
because of missing data.
It looks like High School Musical clips helped propel John4210 to the top spot on
Video Breakouts’ Cool 100 list, followed
closely by Chinese TV programming from New Tang Dynasty TV.
NOTE:TorrentFreak data is based on
http downloads of .torrent files from various BitTorrent sites. The data is collected by
TorrentFreak and is for informational and educational reference only. Currently both DVDrips, DVD
Screeners and R5 rips are counted. The
“back” designation means that the title was in the list before and has reappeared,
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This all happened at www.bodybuilding.com in the Misc. forums. This kid said he was going tom
commit suicide on the live video streaming website Justin.tv and the site's viewers encouraged him
do it. People called bullshit, they were sadly mistaken. I watched the Livecam and saw the kid
laying there, wasn't sure what to think. Later on the livecam (after people on the forum started to
worry and called his local police) the police came in examined the body and covered the webcam.
Quite creepy.
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released a firmware update for iPod touch, bringing it in line with most version 2.2 updates for
iPhone released a little while ago. It doesn't appear, however, that iPod touch users get the
enhancements to the Maps app that iPhone users do. em(Thanks, Guillermo!)/em/p pThe update contains
enhancements to Mail, fixes connection issues with WPA-secured wireless networks, improves Safari
stability, and includes a new preference to turn off auto-correction for typing./p pAlso, podcasts
are now available for download from within the iTunes app, and pressing the Home button from any
home screen will now take you to the first home screen./p pSeveral security enhancements are
included, too, updating CoreGraphics, ImageIO, networking, Office Viewer, Passcode Lock, Safari and
Webkit. A complete list of security updates is a href="http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3318"available
on Apple's website/a./p pThe update is available by clicking "Check for Update" with your iPod
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Last week I mentioned that adding &fmt=18 to a Youtube URL, or
&ap=%2526fmt%3D18 to the embed code URLs allows you to view and embed
Youtube clips in nice looking 480x360 resolution, encoded with the H.264 codec. The result is a
much better playback experience than the standard 320x240 sorenson encoded clips, but a post
today on webmonkey gives us another tweak that can produce even better results for some videos.
By changing that fmt variable to &fmt=22 or tacking on
&ap=%2526fmt%3D22 to the embed URLs—that's right, turn it up twice
past 11—Youtube will kick out compatible videos at a whopping 720p resolution.
The only downside to embedding videos this way is that it really raises the bandwidth requirement
for viewers. On my home connection, it can take several seconds before the video begins playback,
and depending on how well my wireless is behaving, it's not uncommon that the download rate will
be slower thank playback, requiring quite a bit of pre-buffering. On the other hand, some videos
are just worth the wait.
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Last week I mentioned that adding &fmt=18 to a Youtube URL, or
&ap=%2526fmt%3D18 to the embed code URLs allows you to view and embed
Youtube clips in nice looking 480x360 resolution, encoded with the H.264 codec. The result is a
much better playback experience than the standard 320x240 sorenson encoded clips, but a post
today on webmonkey gives us another tweak that can produce even better results for some videos.
By changing that fmt variable to &fmt=22 or tacking on
&ap=%2526fmt%3D22 to the embed URLs—that's right, turn it up twice
past 11—Youtube will kick out compatible videos at a whopping 720p resolution.
The only downside to embedding videos this way is that it really raises the bandwidth requirement
for viewers. On my home connection, it can take several seconds before the video begins playback,
and depending on how well my wireless is behaving, it's not uncommon that the download rate will
be slower thank playback, requiring quite a bit of pre-buffering. On the other hand, some videos
are just worth the wait.
Content Delivery Network BitGravity is
testing a new product they’re calling Multiview (at least internally) that delivers up to
six different synchronized high definition video streams at once. The viewer sees the normal view
but can click on any of the other views at any time, and audio is obviously synchronized. The
result is this: the viewer is put in the producer’s chair, and can switch camera angles at
any time.
Why would you want this? I’m speculating, but an obvious use is sporting events. Instead of
watching whatever is on screen, viewers could watch particular players instead. And if a
particularly interesting play happens, users can switch cameras to see it from different angles.
There are other obvious uses for this too. As usual, the pornography industry may be the first to
try it out.
This is also a view into the future, where video breaks away from the bonds of broadcast
television. The Internet is interactive - so let viewers interact.
To see a Multiview test, go here, which shows a driving trip from six different camera angles
(it’s Google street view on steroids). Not sure if they’ll keep this live now that
we’re pointing to it.
Note that the BitGravity guys are known for doing random stuff to show off
their network. But from what we hear, Multiview is being productized.
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drool over the sexiest new gadgets and hardware.
Orb Live 2.0 released: "Orb Live Free" or "Orb Live" $9.99 at the iTunes web app store for iPhone
and Touch 2G
I am looking at the Orb Live web app's system requirements at the Orb Live website, and in both my
PC and on my Touch 2G, and it says it is possible to "see" web TV even if you do not have a TV
tuner inside a fast home system PC on always ON broadband.
My questions are:
1. web TV, like watch-movies. net or megavideo.com ...?
I didn't see how to tell Orb Live to "see" these, if streaming video or what?
Do I configure this on Orb Live, at my laptop?
Which brings me to..
2. Orb Live on my laptop didn't even see iTunes or Safari on my 'doze Vista. I have some podcasts,
TV shows, DVD's and HD in iTunes I would like to see on my Touch 2G. How do I have Orb Live "see"
this stuff?
and
3. My laptop is never going to be "fast" (1.7 CPU) so is it possible, because "sharing" is
possible, in Orb Live, to have the login information from a fast PC always ON broadband person, and
share?
I mean, would it be reasonable to have a "friendly network" of Orb Live viewers share a fast
server-PC having always ON broadband? And, is anybody interested? I would help pay for the always
ON broadband fast server-PC I am so very interested.
Do I wait and hope, instead, iTV will have streaming video?
A string of lynchings and attempted lynchings around Bolivia has caused a bit of concern around
the country. The latest and most
high-profile case [es] took place in the Altiplano town of Achacachi. Reports say that 11 men and women, who
were allegedly accused of robbery were captured by local residents and were set ablaze. Two of
the accused died, and the other 9 were badly burnt, but were saved when soldiers and the town's
mayor pleaded that the lynching should stop.
Unfortunately, this is becoming a common scene, which widely shows up on the television news, as
Renzo Colanzi writes [es]:
En Bolivia los linchamientos y la toma de la justicia por propia mano, son hechos comunes que se
dan en los noticieros a cualquier hora, sin proteger al televidente de la violencia de las
imágenes, sin importarle de la sensibilidad de los más pequeños que puedan
presenciarlas. Pareciera que todos hemos creado una cierta barrera que nos permite mirar y
permanecer impasibles ante estos hechos terribles. Los policías de Cochabamba se quedaron
bien muertos y el caso sin culpables. Lo mismo que en Montero y así podemos encontrar
situaciones similares en casi cualquier región del país.
In Bolivia, lynching and taking justice into one's own hands, are common events that can be seen
on the news at all hours of the day. The television viewer is not protected from seeing the
violent images, and even the smallest child is not protected from watching them. It would appear
that we all have created a certain barrier that allows us to watch and remain passive regarding
these terrible events. The police in Cochabamba remain dead and the case still has no suspects.
It is the same in Montero and we can see similar situations in all regions of the country.
Whether or not lynchings are considered “community justice” is still being debated,
and the government has officially condemned the action in Achacachi. They state that taking
another life is not part of the indigenous tradition of “community justice.” However,
local residents claim that they have little faith in the “ordinary justice” and must
take matters into their own hands or the crime will continue. There is also widespread concern
because the new draft Constitution, which will be voted upon at a January 25 Referendum,
stipulates that “community justice” will be a legal and recognized part of the
Bolivian judicial system, that lynchings could continue or even increase and used under the
defense of “community justice.”
Por que el presidente morales, tolera la barbarie, se estaba por quemar a una mujer embarazada,
emboscaron y llevaron al stadium a un bus a los 11 supuestos ladrones, se veian gente de escasos
recursos, muchas mujeres y gente bastante mayor a juzgar por las imagenes.
Es que acaso esto tambien nos da el derecho de cuando los ponchos rojos hagan las barbaridades
que hacen poder matarlos a ellos?
O es que acaso la “nueva ley” funciona en un solo sentido?
Se supone que este gobierno era el que nos iba a llevar a un nuevo siglo de progreso pero solo
nos esta llevando a la mas atrasada barbarie posible.
Because President Morales tolerates savagery, they were about to burn a pregnant woman, they
ambushed them and took the 11 alleged thieves to the stadium. One could see low-income people,
many women, and elderly people judging from the images.
Does this also give us the right when the “ponchos rojos” (members of a paramilitary
group of Achacachi) make their savage acts to kill them too?
Or does the “new law” only work in one direction?
It was assumed that this government was going to take us towards a new century of progress, but
it is only taking us to most backward savagery possible.
Sin embargo, como lo decia la periodista Amalia Pando en Erbol, no eran unos angelitos, pues las
personas que fueron capturadas en Achacachi poseian un frondoso prontuario policial… desde
robo hasta robo agravado seguido de muerte.
Sin embargo, al igual que se condena la justicia por mano propia se debe condenar al sistema
economico que origina la delincuencia.
Nevertheless, as the journalist Amalia Pando of Erbol says, that these people were no angels,
those who were captured in Achacachi had a long police record… from robbery to aggravated
robbery and even murder.
Nevertheless, as justice by one's own hands is condemened, so should the ecnomic system where
delinquency originates should also be condemned.
Many indigenous groups are attempting to protect the reputation of “community
justice.” Via the blog El
Alto Noticias [es], blogger Nelson
Vilca [es]interviews a member of the Guarayo indigenous group , who states that
“community justice” does not mean “taking another life.”
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