Comments on: Skinkers Raises $16 Million Series B

By: TechCrunch UK » Blog Archive » Zattoo adds UK channels to live service

TechCrunch UK » Blog Archive » Zattoo adds UK channels to live service — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 12:28:20 +0000

[...] Next.TV, and Chinese based companies Sopcast, PPLive, PPMate. In October last year Skinkers took $16 million in Series B led by Acacia Capital [...]

By: London Based Skinkers Raises $16 Million « A Fuller View

London Based Skinkers Raises $16 Million « A Fuller View — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 16:56:13 +0000

[...] Million in series B funding. The lead investor was Acacia Capital Partners. Both The Guardian and TechCrunch give more details on the [...]

By: ibmcertification

ibmcertification — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 11:01:22 +0000

pretty soon sinkers are going to be very big company because this field is expanding very fast

By: Steve Ballmer

Steve Ballmer — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 16:22:52 +0000

Now these people are smart!
They sent five reps to my office, crawling, begging, “we will do whatever you want sir Mr. Ballmer sir!”
Four of them were waering fishnets ….

http://fakestev...er.blogspot.com

By: Lior

Lior — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 15:17:46 +0000

If you want to watch full episodes in HD quality check out http://www.tv3o.com
From cbs – CSI, Shark and The big bang theory to FOX – Back to you and prison break.

By: Pierre Col | UbicMedia

Pierre Col | UbicMedia — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 13:40:35 +0000

There is no doubt : despite the increasing capacity of IP backbones, the emergence of HD movies and videos, added to the increasing demand for more and more “niche audience” multimedia contents will make P2P technologies the best solution to efficiently deliver huge video files to consumers and to promote & sell “long tail multimedia contents,” with very low distribution cost for content producers and then very attractive offers for consumers, mixing VOD, SVOD etc.

Empowering the IP network infrastructure is a first step, then we have to make P2P technologies usable by non-techies. Some companies, like Joost, LiveStation or Babelgum are linking altogether a proprietary P2P client with a video player. Other companies, like AllPeers, are working on embedding a P2P client in a standard browser. All this is good job, helping the general public to use P2P networks transparently.

And at the end, having set up efficient P2P infrastructures and useful embedded or packaged P2P clients, we have to find the answer to this question :
“How to allow Internet consumers to easily find interesting contents, to freely discover a movie with a preview, without any piracy risk for the right holder?”

DRM technologies are a huge mistake: they lock the content on a device, whereas the Internet is a way to let th epeople share and recommend what they like. Why not let the consumer be a part of the distribution channel ?

Some solutions are emerging to replace DRM by “DUM” : “Digital Usage Management” : files can be freely copied, shared, redistributed among users, but their use remains under control… we are working in that area at UbicMedia, to bring a smart answer to those questions:
- “How to monetize P2P networks without using DRM to protect the contents?”
- “How to promote & sell “long tail” multimedia contents with very low distribution cost?”
- “How to combine P2P downloading with optimized streaming to facilitate the circulation of multimedia content over the Internet, with a total control of their use by the right owners ?

By: Steven Finch

Steven Finch — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 11:25:56 +0000

This is quite interesting news. Skinkers could be a major player in this market and it is a market that is growing at a rapid pace with a lot of revenue possibilities and options for expansion.