If you work in a public library, especially after school lets out, you might have noticed a trend with kids: playing video games is still…
Tag: streaming
After all the anticipation and media attention, the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio are almost upon us. It all starts this Friday evening, August 5,…
Librarians are no longer surprised to find people watching streaming video on their public Internet computers, with YouTube currently being the most prolific provider of…
If you’ve been waiting with bated breath for the successor to the H.264 video codec, wait no more! On the other hand, if you think…
We’ve noted before in this blog that the BitTorrent protocol in itself is not evil, despite its reputation. The problem is the way people use what…
OPLIN 4Cast #299: Copyright alerts
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Administrators at many of the libraries served by OPLIN have received emails from OPLIN Support passing along complaints about copyright infringement, often tracing back to…
Today we are going to ignore all the news items about WikiLeaks and Google eBooks and look instead at movies. It’s been a while (4cast…