Roger McNamee On Video on the Internet

plasticmillion writes "Roger McNamee, venture capitalist and author of The New Normal has just posted the third part of a fascinating series on his blog entitled "Video on the Internet". Here are parts one and two. His basic premise is that media companies are trying to treat the internet as a normal distribution channel like broadcast or DVD, but they need to learn that there are new rules to this game if they are to avoid the errors committed by the music industry. The user comments are also a must read, with luminaries like Marc Andreessen chiming in with their insights."

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Comments a must read?

[pherthyl]

The user comments are also a must read, with luminaries ... chiming in with their insights.

That's one sentence you will never hear used to describe slashdot. ;)

Re:All That Glitters

[Doc Ruby]

I've hated that guy since way back in 1995, when Netscape PR still let him post to Usenet unfiltered. He was railing against some kind of government tech investment, because his "tax dollars" were being wasted on something that private investment should be growing or killing. Now that he had his millions from the Netscape IPO, he'd kill exactly the kind of investment that paid his way at UIUC/NCSA to ride the coattails of Mosaic, that created his millions, from which a tiny portion was retained in capital-gains taxes. What a dick. It was later that I heard the detailed story of how he conned an actual programmer to make an icon tag, which he hacked for arbitrary-sized images, because the programmer thought an image tag would "kill the Internet". Well, it has. Long live the Internet!