Last night was a very busy night for the Justin.tv site. Neither of the big stars of JTV were broadcasting. Those being Justine and the Jonas Brothers. But their was one channel that attracted almost 90% of the the viewers. This channel was being broadcast by a kid who looked like he was around 12 years old. His channel was popular because he was streaming live the WWE’s PPV Unforgiven. Most people who saw the PPV had to pay $40. If you were lucky though you got to see the whole thing free on Justin.tv with about 4000 other people.
Another live streaming website also joined in on the fun. Ustream.tv had at one point 3 different channels going who were all broadcasting the Unforgiven PPV. It seemed though that Ustream could not keep up with all the viewers . For a few hours their were many problems connecting to streams and chat. It could have been just been them doing maintenance though.
The most that will come out of this is that JTV and Ustream will get a letter from the WWE that copyrighted material was broadcast and to take down any archives of the PPV. My concern though is that this will lead to other people broadcasting copyrighted material. Last nights broadcast shows that the sites won’t take you down for broadcasting something copyrighted. I just hope Justin and the crew at Justin.tv are prepared to deal with legal problems.
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Very recently there have been many problems plaguing Justin.tv and the new channels. Some of these issues are regarding privacy and personal information. While some have to do with chat moderation and running a channel. Most of these problems could have been avoided if Justin.tv had some type of tips list or a Guide to Lifecasting. Justin had spoken in the past about writing a guide but I’m thinking he will never finish it. New lifecasters need to be warned and prepared before they turn the camera on.
Why am I writing this post?
Well if you have spent some time on Justin.tv in the past few days you might have noticed or heard that 3 of the newer channels had their personal information leaked and posted in chat. When I say personal information I mean their full name, address and phone numbers. When this type of information is posted it leads to people doing some not so nice things. 2 of the channels to have their information posted were Bob and Ashley. The 3rd to have their information posted was Amber. If you are not familiar with Amber she is only 16 years old and is living at home with the parents. She received numerous phone calls from people and also had pizza delivered to her house. Yesterday she posted in her chat that she quit and will no longer lifecast.
How could this have been happened?
Well it is easy for me to see how Bob and Ashley’s info were found. They own domains and the whois listing is available to the public. Amber on the other hand does not own a domain. Some have said that they must have gotten the information from her paypal account. This is a possibility but very unlikely. As far as I can see when you donate to someone you only get access to the persons full name and their email address. There are many ways to get a persons information though. White pages, publicly posting it somewhere and of course you always have those pay sites that get the information.
I’ll be making a page dedicated to tips and information for new lifecasters. It seems it is needed since the problems will rise as they add more channels.
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