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Why did you call it Usher and not T-pain


I don’t get your reference, but we chose the name Usher because it’s the software equivalent of the person at the theater who looks at your ticket and shows you where your seat is— it doesn’t actually handle any of the video data, it just knows where you should go to find it.


Surprised Microstrategy didn’t sue you guys (or vice versa). They built some access / authorization tool named Usher which seemed to be a total flop (why a BI company was even toying with this perplexes me)


It was/is an internal code name that never shows up except in URLs requested by the player and highly technical articles like this one; I’m not a lawyer, but I expect they might have a hard time showing consumer confusion.




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