{"id":988,"date":"2005-06-15T13:51:09","date_gmt":"2005-06-15T18:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/austin.metblogs.com\/2005\/06\/15\/act-upload\/"},"modified":"2005-06-15T13:51:09","modified_gmt":"2005-06-15T18:51:09","slug":"act-upload","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/act-upload\/","title":{"rendered":"Act, upload"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/actlab.tv\/\">ACTLab TV<\/a>, born out of a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.actlab.utexas.edu\/\">division of UT&#8217;s RTF department<\/a>, had a coming out day of sorts yesterday kicked off by <a href=\"http:\/\/slashdot.org\/article.pl?sid=05\/06\/14\/1441230&amp;tid=188&amp;tid=95\">a post on \/.<\/a> and then <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailytexanonline.com\/media\/paper410\/news\/2005\/06\/15\/TopStories\/Students.Create.UserRun.Internet.Tv-957428.shtml?page=1\">an article in the Daily Texan<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The site currently focuses on the technology behind its offerings. Alluvium, open source software which allows peer-to-peer streaming of video content, kind of like a cross between BitTorrent and RealPlayer. There isn&#8217;t much content yet, but the site hints at a June 20th launch date. There appears to be at least one sample <a href=\"http:\/\/donna.actlab.utexas.edu\/actlab_tv.htm\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>From what I can gather, in addition to the software being open sourced, much of the content will be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.creativecommons.org\">Creative Commons<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gnu.org\/copyleft\/copyleft.html\">CopyLeft<\/a> licensed, which can mean that you can remix or repurpose the content in your own works. The site hints at a blend of technology and activism. It&#8217;ll be interesting to see where they go with this.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong> I just got news of yet another article about ACTLab TV on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tomshardware.com\/hardnews\/20050615_141402.html\">Tom&#8217;s Hardware<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ACTLab TV, born out of a division of UT&#8217;s RTF department, had a coming out day of sorts yesterday kicked off by a post on \/. and then an article in the Daily Texan. The site currently focuses on the technology behind its offerings. Alluvium, open source software which allows peer-to-peer streaming of video content, <a href='https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/act-upload\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3fonJ-fW","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}