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Vidpk.com was launched as a portal for Pakistani videos. When one of the founders behind the project, Abbas Akhtar came to Karachi, we invited him over to the CIO Pakistan studio to pick his brain about online content, video and local user generated content. Take a listen to this! Oh – and do leave us a comment and feel free to ask Abbas a question!
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its good idea….. but make it much better…. its a script agar isko thora aur custom kardo to acha hai. anything for me please tellme
It was pretty nice to listen to this guy, man he know his stuff..
passionate if I may say. 
What a site like this needs is support from pakistani broadcasting and tv companies to offer premium content. Also direct from mobile uploads… love the site and living in america serves as the best platform on the net to stay in touch with with everything going on in my home town. Thanks abbas for making this happen!
Well we have to look at it from the perspective of all the youtubes and metacafe’s out there. This is a site for Paki stuff..that gives it an edge ( localization ) so make an Urdu version, Phustoo, Sindhi etc…
Secondly have ppl upload content specific to Pakistan like sites and sound of their city, place to eat, shop..etc. There is so much of Pakistan we haven’t seen so its nice to see them here and then visit.
Random there hope it helps.
Stealing content without other’s consent, and making money out of him. Great. Go ahead and glorify him. Perhaps your next podcast should be on how its okay to abuse and misuse intellectual property and copyright content.
@Rehmat – Thanks for the comment – The objective was hardly to encourage people to steal, but I’m sure you already knew that.
Any platform, podcast, article can only bring an idea or individual forward.. if the community or users don’t agree with something, please go ahead and voice it out – if you absolutely disagree with it on moral or personal grounds, don’t give it the traffic, so the idea just dies out. Isn’t that democracy of the power that the Web gives you?
And no – the next podcast won’t be on that subject.
I would second Rehmat here, without taking anything away from Abbas Akhtar, appreciate his hard work and effort, and his idea is something that sells, something that people come to, but again, would love it if Abbas can legalize it in some way – maybe getting a nod from the local tv channels to let him air the stuff.
Otherwise the internet bandwidth is increasing day by day and soon people would no longer need to look at the TV when they can watch an on demand tv for free on the net!
I hold the very same thoughts for YouTube.com – goood idea but doesnt save intellectual property from being stolen!