Re: DMCA

On Fri, Jul 28, 2000, Jonas P. Hellborg <naj0526[_at_]aol.com> wrote:
>
> while getting familiar with the american copyright law and the
> dmca i read something about "webcasters". please, what is it?
> i am actually writing my final exams about copyright law on the
> internet and finally got a problem with this tiny expression.

I would think, by analogy, "broadcasters". Centralized content dissemination via WWW, frequently via streaming audio or video formats.

IMO streaming content on the web is a mismatch of technologies. The term "webcaster" has a taint of marketing hype, and has largely failed to live up to expectations.

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