http://www.mobilecrunch.com/2008/08/20/qa-with-vuclip-ceo-nickhil-jakatdar/ All About Mobile 2.0 Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:45:10 -0600 hourly 1 http://www.mobilecrunch.com/2008/08/20/qa-with-vuclip-ceo-nickhil-jakatdar/comment-page-1/#comment-420903 Content Observer Fri, 22 Aug 2008 17:39:05 +0000 http://mobilecrunch.com/?p=3783#comment-420903 Startups that think they can simply take videos available on web sites intended for PCs, reformat them and retransmit them to mobiles without explicit consent from rights holders will become roadkill once content owners wake up. The technology to do this format conversion is trivial and is available on the web under open source in a package called FFMPEG (http://ffmpeg.mplayerhq.hu/). If this unauthorized use of PC web content is allowed, then that would mean pirates can make DVDs from web video content put out by major studios and sell them without any permission from rights holders. That doesn't seem rational, does it? Startups that think they can simply take videos available on web sites intended for PCs, reformat them and retransmit them to mobiles without explicit consent from rights holders will become roadkill once content owners wake up. The technology to do this format conversion is trivial and is available on the web under open source in a package called FFMPEG (http://ffmpeg.mplayerhq.hu/). If this unauthorized use of PC web content is allowed, then that would mean pirates can make DVDs from web video content put out by major studios and sell them without any permission from rights holders. That doesn’t seem rational, does it?

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