Web Series Today: Chris McCaleb: MONKEY ATTACK!!!

Wednesday, June 8, 2011

When Monkeys Attack - A look back at our scouting trip to India, for our 2008 webseries "Foreign Body."

modelmotionJune 8, 2011 at 5:45 PM
As a member of the IAWTV I hope you and the entire organization will call geoblocking what it really is: regional censorship of the World Wide Web. Yes, some companies may see commercial value in it but they should not confuse a geoblocked property with a property on the World Wide Web. They are quite different and if you want to be taken seriously as a "web series" you really cannot be geoblocked because then you are not on the World Wide Web.
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modelmotionJune 9, 2011 at 9:35 AM
The IAWTV is a body that claims to support "standards" yet this body which you are a prominent member of has some members who have openly supported geoblocking. This is not about Prom Queen, a web series that you worked on that was geoblocked. This is about the bigger picture and your personal views on the topic and the views of the IAWTV as it applies to standards for "web television" as they like to call it.

Perhaps you could make a vlog where you directly address the issue and make it clear not only your position on an "open internet" but also the practice of geoblocking as used by Hollywood studios and some nation states to regionally censor the internet. Clearly you cannot talk for the entire IAWTV but you can make a clear and unequivocal statement about your own position on geoblocking as it applies to the World Wide Web and "web series" in particular.
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