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Get Played. Get Paid.

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the the-return-of-the-bob dept.

vile8 writes "Bob Young, co-founder of Red Hat Software, is in the NY Times this morning covering a new co-operative business plan for viral video makers. Just like his Self-publishing site Lulu, the new plan provides 80% of the revenues back to the creators. It is based on something quite common, Co-ops. In this plan, if there were 5000 users at 14.95 each there would be 59,800 that would get divvied up among those that brought traffic to the site. The 'pro' users also get larger upload space, and longer cam captures. Other unique features of the site are the podcast generation per author, author vlog pages, and open-source-specific OGM video format conversions."

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  1. Heh by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    At first I thought that it was an ad to "get laid."
     
    ...but then I remembered that this is Slashdot, and such an event is impossible to carry out in our realm of g33kdom.

  2. Did anyone else read.... by zarthrag · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Get Laid, Get Paid"???

    Really had my attention for a sec...

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    1. Re:Did anyone else read.... by nacturation · · Score: 2, Funny

      This is an article about Lulu... you're thinking of the Bubba service.

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  3. Re:But by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Good catch, moderators - few things are more -1, Offtopic on Slashdot than getting laid.