Digital Distribution issues
MPEG-LA starts patent move on VP8Â http://tinyurl.com/6eqphma
One of the things that has worried me about VP8/WebM is that Google has refused to indemnify users from patent issues. To me that’s a huge worry, and now MPEG-LA has started the process of establishing whether or not VP8 does (or does not) infringe any of its members’ patents.
Subscriptions: The Secret to a Sustainable Web Series? http://tinyurl.com/6jz8k5s
When All Content Is Personalized, Who Needs TV Networks? http://tinyurl.com/4rl3b3r
Kevin Smith’s distrib plan: “eventize his picture” http://tinyurl.com/457kgee
Cargo Cults, and Kevin Smith http://tinyurl.com/5tevudm
Zombie Cable Channels Seek Second Life online http://bit.ly/eQeC45
When All Content Is Personalized, Who Needs TV Networks http://tinyurl.com/4rl3b3r
Turner CEO: how he’s anti-customer and wants to encourage piracy http://tinyurl.com/2bzx64m
The studios will lose the “war†with Netflix http://t.co/zzHT0kh From Terry Heaton’s PoMo Blog
A very insightful article on why Netflix more truly connects with its customers than the “studios” do, and why that maters:
The first rule of Media 2.0 is that you ignore consumers at your own peril. The people formerly known as the audience are now fully in charge, as Rishad Tobbaccowala noted in 2004:
We’ve entered an era in which consumers are God, because technology allows them to be godlike. How will you engage God?
This strikes at the heart of all that is disrupting media, for legacy media has a history of ignoring consumers in the name of revenue growth. It’s a blind spot that threatens everything today and will continue to do so.
The Terence and Philip Show Episode 16 http://tinyurl.com/34ahexb Is their any evidence piracy hurts the industry? Apparently not.
With the US Government Accounting Office dismissing RIAA and MPAA “research” as being lacking in any factual basis, is unauthorized distribution hurting or helping the industry?