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'SingularDTV' Will Use Ethereum For DRM On A Sci-Fi TV Show (rocknerd.co.uk)

Posted by EditorDavid on from the money-of-the-future dept.

It's "an epic sci-fi adventure about the human race's journey into a theoretical technological Singularity." Or is it an "entertainment industry boondoggle...part DRM snake oil marketing, part pseudo-Bitcoin scam and part sincere Singularitarian weirdness?" Long-term Slashdot reader David Gerard writes: SingularDTV is an exciting new blockchain-based entertainment industry startup. Their plan is to adapt the DRM that made $121.54 for Imogen Heap, make their own completely pre-mined altcoin and use that to somehow sell two million views of a sci-fi TV show about the Singularity. Using CODE, which is explicitly modeled on The DAO ... which spectacularly imploded days after its launch. There's a white paper [PDF], but here's an analysis of why these schemes are a terrible idea for musicians.
'Singular' will be a one-hour adventure/drama "that explores the impact technology will have on the future of our planet and how it will shape the evolution of our human race," set in the years 2021 to 2045, "as an unprecedented technological revolution sweeps over the world..."

8 of 78 comments (clear)

  1. Is this an AI post? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Could not make any connection out of two readings of it.

  2. Investment scam? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This buzzword salad has to be some sort of investment scam. There's no way they can be delusional enough to think this is actually a revenue-maker.

    1. Re:Investment scam? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Where do they expect to find two million blockchain-coin users who want to watch and who are also willing to pay?

    2. Re:Investment scam? by I+kan+Spl · · Score: 3, Insightful

      I would like to raise "buzzword salad" in consideration for the phrase of the day.

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  3. I have low expectations from Slashdot editors, but by AuMatar · · Score: 5, Insightful

    this really manages to fall below them. Was there anything in that summary that was supposed to make sense?

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  4. enthusiastically predominate next-gen mindshare! by jjeffries · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Monotonectally facilitate efficient intellectual capital! Enthusiastically strategize strategic paradigms! Credibly productize leading-edge scenarios!

  5. About that singularity... by AJWM · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Pretty much by definition, anything post-Singularity will be incomprehensible to anyone pre-Singularity, so any story actually based post-Singularity will either be faking it or be incomprehensible.

    From the looks of that summary, they've got a pretty good start on the latter....

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  6. But on the other hand... by Mats+Svensson · · Score: 1, Insightful

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