SubscribeGoogle Video to Stop Offering Paid Video Downloads
Posted in IPTV, News on August 16th, 2007. By Eduard F. Vinyamata.
Google Video, a free video sharing and video search service from Google, stopped offering paid video downloads. Google let video content producers upload their own contents and sell them through Google Video. Such contents where protected by Google with DRM and thus had copy, share and play limitations. All customers who bought DRM protected contents from Google Video will find that they can’t play them anymore, but will also find a full refund from Google in their bank accounts.
Even with Google Video’s Marketplace gone, independent video producers and established production companies alike still have Brightcove and Vuze (among others) as alternative “pay per view” distribution platforms for their video contents.
As some of the comments point out in this and recently stopped offering”>this articles about Google Video, details about this latest move from Google might indicate that a DRM free video distribution platform might be in the works and could possibly be launched in the next few months.
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