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Roger McNamee On Video on the Internet

Posted by samzenpus on from the lets-talk-film dept.

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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  1. Willy on Wheels! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    All hail the Willy on Wheels!

  2. Re:Spot On by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Snagglepuss? Is that you?

    Exit stage left even..

  3. Linux fucking sucks by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Linux needs 2 things to make it on the desktop:
    1) A GUI that doesn't blow ass. KDE, Gnome and the rest should be thrown out, and a new DE should rise from its ashes. All GUI apps would need to conform to a strict set of standards to be used with this new DE.
    2) Software installation that actually works. Something like OpenStep style applications that you can download pre-compiled from the developer's site and have it just work. No more Apt getting this, or ./configuring that.

  4. moD Up by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    And Michael Smith FrreBSD went out OpenBSD wanker Theo