fun comments by tg and knife; hehe.
this guy isn't getting fired for being an arrogant prick?
what's impressive is his assumption that the way things "should be" is very expensive content being produced by a small minority of people for a huge audience. for a guy working with new technology he's certainly thinking in an old school way.
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Originally posted by JackSpratts
The truth is that www is still a jumble of (mostly free) text, graphics, blogs and communication (except for porn, where video is, ahem, the rising form.)
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hehe; if anyone wants to know what the mainstream is about to embrace in terms of technology one only has to look to porn.... porn has always been on the cutting edge... what was some of the first motion picutes? naked chicks. porn is always first and it's good to look at how porn makes money to see the larger picture of how the web will make money.
as it currently stands, there's money to be made from video. people will pay for fast delivery of decent quality (video picture) stuff. the problem is content. you need to deliver me something that it is somehow more convenient for me to grab then buying a dvd or renting. porn is perfect because it's something that doesn't require a television and i don't want to go out in public to get it.
so what else would work? current theatrical films released as sub par dvd (near vhs would be fine methinks)... peeps would easily pay $10-$20 for that download. of course they'll never do it; but i think that would work.