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With ustream.tv, everyone can see content and see the interactions between viewers. For the attorney, it may be used to give a seminar where the person may have interactions with the audience who is not in person.
Ustream.tv may be used to embed to blogs, myspace profiles. It is able to live stream any event and a person is able to talk to the audience by asking questions, doing polls in real time. It has already been used for political conventions.
For views of different perspectives, web cams are placed in different positions.
It is integrated with Twitter with the Twitter API so that people can inform others of new items to go watch in the stream. It has a ratings feature with shout meter. The system aggregates clicks with a global time stamp to let viewers know what is happening that is interesting.
The company makes money by ad revenues, professional services to consumers who want premium broadcasting capabilities. The competitors of ustream.tv are Stickham, and other live video streaming companies.
On the question of copyright infringement, the company does not actively police its content, but it has alert features for people to report infringement. The representative said that regulation was difficult because the streams are live. The company would look into violations when notified.
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