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Amazon has launched its streaming video service for paying Amazon Prime customers, making good on its rumored plans to duke it out with Netflix.
Amazon Prime Instant Video has a catalog of more than 5,000 commercial-free streaming movies and TV shows. The service is a free add-on for subscribers to Amazon's $79-per-year Amazon Prime membership, which grants free two-day shipping, no minimum order size requirement and a price reduction on one-day shipping.
You can watch Amazon's offerings on your Mac, PC or streaming media device, such as the Roku or an Internet-connect TV.
In case you were wondering, Amazon's catalog of movies and TV shows are not superior to Netflix's - in fact, they're essentially the same, except fewer. Most of the Amazon Prime Instant Video titles highlighted on the site - such as "Eyes Wide Shut," "March of the Penguins," and "Food Inc." - are all available on Netflix Watch Instantly, which boasts roughly 20,000 streaming video selections.
But Amazon's goal (at least for the moment) isn't besting Netflix's selection, or even becoming the leader in online streaming; rather, Amazon seems to be leveraging Amazon Prime. A market analyst told The Hollywood Reporter that bundling Amazon Prime with instant streaming is the company's way of offering "Netflix's core streaming feature as part of a more valuable, broader package."
The value is there for some, but not all. If you can't stop clicking "Buy Now with 1-Click" and would rather not slog through Netflix's endless array of subpar films, an Amazon Prime membership - which works out to be cheaper than Netflix's $7.99-per-month streaming-only plan - may be your best route. But if you aren't a frequent online shopper and do want to watch "Troll 2" (which you absolutely do and you know it), an Amazon Prime membership is only $1.35 less per month.
One small but pertinent selling point is the diversity among Amazon Prime's selections. Viewers get a choice of a subtitled or English-dubbed version of "The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest," for instance, which ought to please those who hate "reading" movies.
While I don't think thousands of Netflix subscribers will cancel their memberships based on this announcement, I do think that Amazon Prime Instant Video is a service to keep tabs on. If Amazon can weed through Netflix's heaps of rubbish and offer the brightest gems with the option to customize (subtitles for any film would be nice), Amazon may have just unveiled a potential Netflix-killer.
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A dozen of Julian Assange’s former colleagues have decided to go forward and create a new website from the ashes of WikiLeaks. With Assange trying to fight against the allegations of sexual wrongdoing, these colleagues hope for a revised website that is characterized as a revised vision of transparency.
According to Herbert Snorrason, an Icelandic programmer who is involved in OpenLeaks, the goal is to avoid the influence of a single individual. Assange used to have a lot of the power with WikiLeaks and handled a lot of documents which put the neutrality of the organization in jeopardy. OpenLeaks won’t handle the documents themselves and instead will act as the middleman between the leaker and the media and human rights organizations.
Last September, many of the members of WikiLeaks had a problem with Assange. They felt that he was destroying the project because he joined his sexual wrongdoings with the WikiLeaks work.
“It’s no secret that we had disagreements with how WikiLeaks was being managed. And a large part of what we hope to accomplish with OpenLeaks is to avoid those problems,” said Mr. Snorrason to the New York Times.
The most important thing to this new website is neutrality. With WikiLeaks, it was decided what would be published and what wouldn’t. That allowed certain politics to take precedence over others. With OpenLeaks, they won’t have a say in what is published or isn’t which allows for complete neutrality.
Many other websites have popped up with similar goals all based off of Assange’s 2006 blog post that said, “mass leaking” left unjust governments “exquisitely vulnerable to those who seek to replace them with more open forms of governance.”
The big difficult for OpenLeaks is how they can publish information without having governments shut them down. WikiLeaks came under assault from their hosting company, PayPal, MasterCard and other businesses which made it very difficult to continue running the website.
The new founders are hoping to get going with the website come summer time.
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