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For those of you who don’t keep up with Capitol Hill, Sean Garrett at The 463: Inside Tech Policy blog explains the latest online video legislation.

Sean dives deep into the Child Safe Viewing Act of 2007 and explains how legislation with good intentions often goes bad.

There’s only two online video picks this weekend, but they last all weekend long. Both extreme.

AT&T’s Blue Room will be streaming the Lollapalooza festival for all of us who can’t (or would rather not) make it there.

Avoid the heat, stay inside, pour yourself your favorite icy beverage, and laugh at all those people in the mosh pit.

And if you’d rather watch some extreme sports, ESPN is pumping out X Games 13 on any platform that supports video. Catch it on TV, the web or your phone.

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At Online Video Watch, we’ve been fans of Move Networks for quite a while. They have the secret sauce for delivering some of the best looking streamed video content on the web.

Today, Move Networks announced that Discovery Communications is the latest network to use the Move technology, with the premiere Animal Planet’s “Meerkat Manor” a full week ahead of its TV debut.

Miami Ink spinnoff, LA Ink, and Dirty Jobs will also be delivered via Move, a day after their season premieres air on the old boob-tube.

A huge benefit for advertisers, and continuing to push and validate…

Move Networks recently announced that they will power an online video player for Discovery Communications (more from Corey). Discovery joins a growing number of networks including FOX and ABC which we wrote about last week.

I’m a big proponent of convergence leading all online video back to the living room TV. But that confluence is taking place on two fronts.

On one side are the Verizons of the world installing fiber to deliver IPTV over a closed network. On the other are those developing new codecs and technologies to leverage existing networks…