The Napsterization of TV

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday February 4, 2002 @06:47AM from the its-only-a-matter-of-time dept.

Lefty writes "This article in today's Boston Globe talks about the napsterization of TV shows and how the PC as a media server is going to make it happen. Burning TV shows to CD/DVD, e-mailing your friends TV shows, streaming TV over the Internet -- all things the dedicated set-top boxes can't do... The article talks about Snapstream, a PVR competitor to Moxi and ReplayTV, that runs on the PC and has media server capabilities. from the article: "Already you can find a great deal of pirated video material online. If SnapStream gets installed on millions of PCs, there'll be plenty more. And the TV moguls will find themselves knee deep in the digital acid bath.""

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Re:This is more about copyrights in a digital worl by Jeremi · 2002-02-04 07:59 · Score: 5, Insightful

how do media artists make a living when their product can be copied an infinite number of times for virtually zero cost?

They can rely on good-will tipping from their fans (see .sig, below), or fund themselves from their day jobs. You may think that's unacceptable, but I don't -- I think the world would benefit from having less professional/corporate/money-driven content, and more amateur/semi-pro content.

Just MHO.

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