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The Rise of the Internetwork
Thomas Hawk writes "The Seattle Times is out with an article today profiling Jeremy Allaire, the founder of a new internet television company called Brightcove along with, well, a program on 'hog cooking' to be broadcast on the Barbeque Network by DaveTV. DaveTV and Brightcove, along with companies like Akimbo, Total Vid, Open Media Network and OurMedia are part of a growing new group of companies called internetworks that are seeking to compete with regular network television and offer alternative niche video content. Look for these offerings in your living room through platforms like TiVo and Microsoft's Media Center shortly."
Does anyone else find the term "Internetworks" annoying? After all, internet basically is short for internetwork already.
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Up to this point, the reason has been that the bean counters at the cable company and TV production studios decided they would get more dollars per channel by featuring the BBQ network as opposed to an anime channel. Hopefully services like this will make it easier and more affordable for a company to put together a TV lineup, which means that something like an anime channel that may not have been profitable before would become profitable now. Not to mention, there won't be a cable company monopoly anymore with multiple networks available to each house.
The RIAA does not have a chokehold on all music distribution. Musicians have no less freedom to self distribute, assuming they are not contractually bound, all their music as they see fit. Napster proved only one thing; people just want shit for free. The ensuing battle over copyrighted material being distributed over P2P networks on the internet further proves this point as more and more apps are being developed with the sole purpose of allowing anonymous distribution. People just want shit for free and they want to remain anonymous while they do it so they remain free of responsibility for their actions.