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Thanks to the meteoric rise of YouTube, anyone with a video camera and an World Wide Web connection can be a star. More recently, they can live stream themselves to you 24/7, even from a mobile phone. Here we take a look at 14 companies competing in that sector.

Justin.TV, featuring a live cam of a guy named Justin in San Francisco, helped spearhead the new wave of popularity, but a host of other companies are battling for a piece of that market.

Hand in hand with the popularity of video streaming and downloads comes questions of legality. ViaCom, that past March, filed a lawsuit against YouTube for $1 billion for alleged copyright […]

Orginal post by David Adewumi