Elcool says: hello Reynaldo Gil - Voyager Mission says: hello Reynaldo Gil - Voyager Mission says: i am glad to hear from you Elcool says: you sent me those emails, and i'm interested in more infromation Elcool says: as i didn't quite get what you wanted me to do Reynaldo Gil - Voyager Mission says: we are an under the radar company building a video collection service with unique software Reynaldo Gil - Voyager Mission says: our software can act like a digital recorder for web 2.0 stuff like flash, google maps, games, etc. Elcool says: what do you mean "under the radar"? Reynaldo Gil - Voyager Mission says: We are not marketing the company yet Elcool says: oh Reynaldo Gil - Voyager Mission says: we spent three years R&D building our smart software and the last year building our consumer media collection service Reynaldo Gil - Voyager Mission says: the software has a lot of smarts to recognize and make exact digital copies of web media. Reynaldo Gil - Voyager Mission says: I found you through the Weird Al links. We have people using our service and software to build digital copies of Weird Al videos. Elcool says: aren't most web media already digital? Elcool says: i mean, it's online and encoded in some way Reynaldo Gil - Voyager Mission says: yes the web media is digital but there is no tool to capture the media as it is. Most people hassle with converting it to files, etc. Reynaldo Gil - Voyager Mission says: with our free service you can build a library of web media with full interactive capabilities. Reynaldo Gil - Voyager Mission says: you can record google maps with drill-downs, flash games with interaction, videos with the metadata describing the content, etc. Elcool says: are you infact saying you're making a program that can play.. everything? Reynaldo Gil - Voyager Mission says: you drag and drop the web media content into a library. Reynaldo Gil - Voyager Mission says: yes. it is a universal digital recorder that plays embedded players. Elcool says: then i think that you'l have some copyright issues Reynaldo Gil - Voyager Mission says: it runs on your PC as a personal service. It fall under fair use laws just like VCR. Reynaldo Gil - Voyager Mission says: we dont do anything on the server side Reynaldo Gil - Voyager Mission says: we had Silicon Valley lawyers check everything out. the server guys doing any conversions can be shut down Reynaldo Gil - Voyager Mission says: we dont do conversions. the software records a personal digital copy just like recording from a tv Reynaldo Gil - Voyager Mission says: our sharing model is simply to IM or email a link to the original source to a friend and they can make their own personal digital copy. Reynaldo Gil - Voyager Mission says: completely legal which is the way we want to keep it Reynaldo Gil - Voyager Mission says: our web site posts public content from other sites. they police the content and can pull it. Reynaldo Gil - Voyager Mission says: however, many people are using the software to quickly record stuff that may get pulled off the web Elcool says: when i was on your site i saw alot of videos labeled "from YouTube" Elcool says: did you get premmission from each and every one of them? Reynaldo Gil - Voyager Mission says: youtube is one source. we only post public videos with the right to embed on other sites. we screen videos not categorized that way Reynaldo Gil - Voyager Mission says: we are building collections based on global consumer demand rather than personal opinions like many social video sharing sites