Justin.tv's 24/7 lifecasting practices - Claude
The setup: Kan wore a webcam attached to a baseball cap, with a laptop-backpack rig designed by co-founder Kyle Vogt, and started streaming continuous live video and audio at midnight on March 19, 2007. The signal went over Sprint's wireless network to Justin.tv's servers, and viewers could chat with him in real time. Wikipedia The "24/7" was real but had asterisks — self-imposed modesty filters rather than cuts. He kept broadcasting in the bathroom and during sex, but tilted the camera toward the ceiling in the bathroom and switched the mic off during sex. He slept with a camcorder running. The official line was "minus bathroom and bathing breaks," and he interacted with viewers via an inbuilt chat system the whole time. Wordpress Wikipedia The chaos was immediate and is the part most relevant to your screenplay. Within 48 hours of launch, a viewer spoofed Justin's caller ID, called SFPD on March 21 and reported a stabbing in the apartment; the next day someone reported a fire. SF e
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