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Off Topic => Off Topic => Topic started by: The Last Belmont on December 17, 2008, 05:40:00 AM
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Article (http://nymag.com/news/media/30021/)
Wow what assholes, I've lost all respect for viacom. You can't get in the way of progress or you get trampled all over I think this is why google isn't worried you can't stop the future viacom needs to quit being retarded and go with the flow or be prepared to be destroyed as the new era of fully internet based entertainment commerce grows ever nearer. Bestbuy is already selling movies and albums on flashdrives in their stores it's only a matter of time. Napster was totally diff. at the time the industry wasn't ready for a service like that they were too ahead of their time in the 90's, but to try to do something like that now is impossible. Youtube is too big and besides all people are doing is watching shows on a paid service provider. It's no different than watching shows on a tv via cable.
While searching around I found this super funny AVGN fake vid. Hope yall enjoy. AVGN's Response (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIXo7IZAlOc)
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#1 that article is from april 2007
#2 let me undersand, you think watching videos on youtube through a paid internet provider is similar to watching tv with a paid cable provider? is not like watching tv.
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#1 that article is from april 2007
#2 let me undersand, you think watching videos on youtube through a paid internet provider is similar to watching tv with a paid cable provider? is not like watching tv.
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In Reply To #5
This is how we could make all the downloading and YouTube stuff legal IMO. You add a $10 tax to anyone who decides they want to pay it for downloading content on top of what they pay their ISP. Anyone who doesn't pay the tax will not be able to download things or view said YouTube clips. You spread the money from that tax to these various evil media conglomerates in exchange for them allowing their content to be used.
But see, this would never work. Because Viacom doesn't really want to make money. They just want to hoard their goods. Viacom's threatening blackouts becuase Time Warner won't increase the fees they pay them for carrying their channels.
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In Reply To #5
This is how we could make all the downloading and YouTube stuff legal IMO. You add a $10 tax to anyone who decides they want to pay it for downloading content on top of what they pay their ISP. Anyone who doesn't pay the tax will not be able to download things or view said YouTube clips. You spread the money from that tax to these various evil media conglomerates in exchange for them allowing their content to be used.
Wow that's genius bro, that would get rid of all the problems right there.
But see, this would never work. Because Viacom doesn't really want to make money. They just want to hoard their goods. Viacom's threatening blackouts becuase Time Warner won't increase the fees they pay them for carrying their channels.
That's a big issue for them and companies like them because if they don't eventually change with the times they will go under. Just like blockbuster, hollywood video, and all companies that make all there money on portable video and audio media will evenutally if they don't adapt to the changing times. Can't go against consumer demand and the changing times, that's a recipe for disaster.
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In Reply To #7
That's what's happening to the music industry. The labels want to keep things they way they have been for years (a system which gives them complete control over music) rather than getting in with new things like P2P file sharing and such. They could make a killing, but they'd rather sue poor college kids than actually make any changes.
It's amazing to me how stupid most corporations are. Their only purpose is to make as much money as possible, and yet so many of them do things that completely block them from that end.
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The era of the internet is here...Viacom must go with the flow, or the flow will go without it v_v