Techdirt comments that One of the more interesting stories to look for in the tech world is the unintended consequences of new technology that can often change the way you view something else.

They cite as an example how YouTube has gone beyond the VCR and DVR (and TV shows on DVD for that matter) to obliterate the fleeting nature of TV. In other words, if one ‘misses” something on TV, its often now easy to find later.

Couple that with the burgeoning place-shifting phenomenon from devices like Slingbox, which allow one to watch TV sourced from your home tuner or DVR from any device with an Internet connection. That could be anywhere from a laptop on your patio (one has to question how often one needs to watch TV on your patio – but that’s another issue), to on a smartphone during your commute or while waiting for a meeting.

That leads to new ways to consume content, and new challenges for the broadcast and advertising industries.

Read the Techdirt post on YouTube

Read an arstechnica article about placeshifting challenges and concerns of the media