Radke Land

Radke Land is currently in the process of providing video streaming as a service to its users. Video streaming is a fancy name for the occasions when you click on a movie, and it starts playing before you've downloaded the entire thing.

So ... guess what?!?! Now we dig deeply into how patent law has been inappropriately applied to common sense. Sending various video formats back and forth is not subject to patent law, but live presentations, and coding/decoding in certain formats is regulated by patent law. MPEG-4 is one of the better (and cheaper, and least expensive) formats out there. If I wish to stream this kind of format, I am required to pay about $0.02/hour to do so. Now really, I don't mind the money, but I do mind two things.

1. It's a format, for goodness sake!
2. I don't want the burden of accounting. We're a cute little home based dealey here, and why the heck should I have to set up accounting and send out monthly checks to Bob on the other side of the world so you can all see Gabe?!??

So ... we won't use proprietary video formats, and we'll provide whatever setup instructions are needed to allow our users to enjoy our content.

Details are forthcoming, so stay tuned!