Matt Lee

I'm Matt Lee, one of the folks behind behind Foo Communications, a company/experiment in music and social media, including Libre.fm, a new social media platform that offers musicians exclusive promotion and play in exchange for licensing their music under a free culture license, and GNU social, a federated social networking project.

Day Three, June 22nd 2011

I worked from home today, looking after Robin who's sick with a cold, but also to try and get some more work done on a piece I'm writing about YouTube Rentals. YouTube Rentals is by far one of the stupidest things YouTube have done lately -- going against all their good work in the area of web standards and accessible, free formats for the masses and shoveling an ill-conceived rental program to try and compete with... someone.
I get most of my entertainment from Netflix and the web. I don't want to rent a video I can watch on my laptop -- I'd happily pay pretty much anyone a dollar to own a DRM-free copy of a movie, maybe 35 cents for a TV episode. I recently experimented with Hulu Plus, but cancelled only a day into my free trial due to their butchering of Peep Show episodes -- with adverts cutting in haphazardly, and even in the middle of sentences.
I am also addicted to the web version of Angry Birds.

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