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South Park's Episode 201 — the Expurgated Version
Yesterday we mentioned the controversy facing Matt Stone and Trey Parker after last week's South Park (episode 200) depicted Muhammad, founder of Islam, concealed in a bear suit.
Today, penguinman1337 writes "Apparently, all is not well over at Comedy Central. The heavily censored version of episode 201 that aired last night has a lot of people angry, including the show's creators." From their note: "In the 14 years we've been doing South Park we have never done a show that we couldn't stand behind. We delivered our version of the show to Comedy Central and they made a determination to alter the episode. It wasn't some meta-joke on our part. Comedy Central added the bleeps."
Already have it in my utorrent queue!
It will be interesting to see how long before we see the un-fucked-with version released.
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"When life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back!" -- Cave Johnson
It is not difficult to “monetize” an online presence. You just have to live in freaking reality!!
Offer something. Ask a price for it. Done. Simple as that.
As it’s a service, you’re offering... which results in infinitely copyable and uncontrollable information... you have to ask for all the money right on the first deal. As there is a big chance that there will not be any second deal.
So it works like this:
Offer all old stuff for just the costs of your hosting. Either paid trough ads or trough micropayment.
And for your upcoming episode, offer people to buy it upfront. And I mean not licensing! I mean that you actually can do with it whatever you like. Including reselling it.
The catch is, that those are the ONLY people who will get access to it, when it’s done.
Then when you release the episode, you transfer the money, and send your paying clients a personalized link with a authentication token.
Now because everyone paid good money for it, nobody is willing to just pass it on for free. And as they are even encouraged to resell it, they will do so. But if someone decides to give it away for free, at his own expense, then of course, those can pass it on for free as much as they like, and kill the price. But that would happen with physical objects too. Nonetheless, this is normally not the case for distributors, supermarkets, or any other resellers.
The great think is, that this whole system does not require any law changes, isn’t influenced by the current systems, and can even run in parallel. It is completely in touch with reality, and so one can make good money, while not requiring any form of DRM, government or other control.
People still have a hard time accepting this. But they will get to it. In 10 years, this will be the preferred way of making money, other than trough advertising.
Any sufficiently advanced intelligence is indistinguishable from stupidity.
Legal's opinion might matter if CC decided to air an episode with death threats pending on the contents of the episode and one of them was hurt or killed.