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I second the nomination for Google Hangouts. It's more robust than you think and there's a lot of untapped potential. You can find out quite a bit more here: http://www.google.com/+/learnmore/hangouts/onair.html On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 7:27 AM, Gary McGath <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > On 11/15/12 10:10 AM, Mike Smorul wrote: > > > Ustream and their more commercial Watershed offering is pretty nice and > the > > production software makes it pretty easy to switch between sources > > (desktop, webcam, etc). The service charges per attendee minute, so if > you > > expect a lot of traffic, this may start to get pricy. You do have the > > advantage us reusing their CDN though. > > I wouldn't touch Ustream. They use bots to detect copyrighted material > and automatically shut off streams that are in "violation." The trouble > is, the bots have no concept of having permission to stream copyrighted > material. The Hugo Awards at this year's World Science Fiction > Convention were cut off in mid-broadcast because of this. UStream > apologized afterwards, but the damage was done. > > > http://prometheus-unbound.org/2012/09/03/news-copyright-ruined-the-hugo-awards-livestream/ > > > -- > Gary McGath, Professional Software Developer >