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The Ethics of Video Streaming

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Title of the Essay, Author, and Date

The Ethics of Video Streaming by Mary T. McCarthy (June 25, 2015)

 

Title of the Reflection

T he Basic Principles for Transmitting Video

 

First Impression

An essay on what we should we do when video Streaming

 

Quote

  These apps feel like big things, like they matter. And there’s no question that Meerkat and Periscope will serve important purposes going forward. Even though live streaming isn’t new, it’s never been this easy. But does anyone outside of the obsessive tech community truly even care?

 

Reflection

Streaming video is content sent in compressed form over the Internet and displayed by the viewer in real time. With streaming video or streaming media, a Web user does not have to wait to download a file to play it. Instead, the media is sent in a continuous stream of data and is played as it arrives.

 

According to DaCast, a web based video streaming platform, by the end of 2015, there will be 2 billion smartphone users worldwide. In other words, a quarter of the entire human population on earth will have a way to be internet-connected at anytime from anywhere. In 2014, a shocking 53 percent of all video was viewed on mobile devices and that number is expected to grow to 69 percent by 2018. The majority of streamed video is free. Often referred to as “shareware,” it can be difficult for viewers to even know if they are breaking a law when watching a movie or a sports event. With all the available accessibility for people to stream video on demand. This instant-streaming technology essentially makes it possible for people to film the deaths of other people, broadcast them live, and potentially have family members learn of the death of their loved one on Twitter. Privacy issues in live streaming are a concern of many tech users. While the FBI has the ability to use technology to flush out video streaming habits of law-breakers, it’s generally known to do so with child porn violators. 

 

Video streaming has its own advantages and disadvantages people can choose whether they use the video streaming for good reasons like viewing news and lifetime events and occasion. Or use it in bad ways like watching pornography and sharing other's video without permission.

 

5 things I've learned

  1. According to DaCast, a web based video streaming platform, by the end of 2015, there will be 2 billion smartphone users worldwide.
  2. Privacy issues in live streaming are a concern of many tech users.
  3. “Live-streaming video has suddenly gotten easier than ever before—and as is the case every time social media takes a leap forward, a host of practical and ethical questions about using technology during times of tragedy have presented themselves.”
  4. The instant-streaming technology essentially makes it possible for people to film the deaths of other people, broadcast them live, and potentially have family members learn of the death of their loved one on Twitter.
  5.  Our society is moving toward an Orwellian, “Truman Show”-esque world. A world, in which people both expect to appear on camera, and in many cases, be the ones holding the cameras.

 

5 integrative questions

  1. Why a quarter of the entire human population on earth will have a way to be internet-connected at anytime from anywhere?
  2. Why what was the reason FBI has the ability to use technology to flush out video streaming habits of law-breakers, it’s generally known to do so with child porn violators?
  3. What’s legal and not legal about streaming?
  4. What about the ethics of broadcasting video?
  5. Why everyone with a smartphone can broadcast live to millions of viewers, how does that change journalism and privacy issues?

 

  

 

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