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'SingularDTV' Will Use Ethereum For DRM On A Sci-Fi TV Show (rocknerd.co.uk)
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..."
'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..."
Could not make any connection out of two readings of it.
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.
this really manages to fall below them. Was there anything in that summary that was supposed to make sense?
I still have more fans than freaks. WTF is wrong with you people?
Monotonectally facilitate efficient intellectual capital! Enthusiastically strategize strategic paradigms! Credibly productize leading-edge scenarios!
There's a company with something that's like Bitcoin, except that they mined a whole shitload of it first before releasing it to the public.
This company plans now to make a television show.
You can only watch this you purchase it, and you can only purchase it using their Bitcoin clone.
They have their own proprietary DRM that they think will prevent anyone from pirating this show.
This scheme (their DRM paired with their Bitcoin clone) has already been attempted by this company; it was previously used to sell a single from musician Imogen Heap. In that case, it made a whole $121.
It appears as though this is some type of scam, but it's not exactly clear how it's supposed to pay off for them. I speculate that they're going to throw the whole idea at investors and try to nab someone stupid enough to be blinded by the buzzwords, but I don't know.
Oh good, I was afraid I was the only one who didn't understand a fucking word of the summary.
I recognized some of the words, but the meaning escapes me.
Just cruising through this digital world at 33 1/3 rpm...
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....
-- Alastair