Rodney Rumford

GMaps ! for Australia now. Personally GMaps always somehow take me the wrong destination(closer to actual destination but still), so all my aussie friends hope it does not leave you in a dessert stranded….

1) They will shut out artist who don’t conform to their world (i.e. Christianists) view.

2) They will TRACK YOUR DATA AND SHARE IT WITH THE GOVERNMENT!!

3) They are racists. Black people will be left out of the market. And Arabs, and the French and all furners etc.

4) The company is becoming more and more hated around the world.

http://www.fairyland.tv

I agree that customers benefit when big dogs compete. I think this is only the beginning of what’s to come with video via web and downloads. Very cool.

- You have to think about the rights for Internet-based distribution for these titles

- You have to “Think globally, start locally.” to test the BM.

and only then

- You have to think about “the 25+ different legal systems in Europe and even more worldwide”

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1) the movie studios will not play ball with Jobs if he insists on exclusively and 9.99 downloads.

2) netflix will launch their downloads soon and it’s a natural for current netflix subscribers to download from them.

i see walmart having a good horse in this race…as good as any.

if you really want to start/create a business for downloading movies, i’m not sure that simply repackaging/reselling traditional movies/tv shows is the way to do it.

another way might be to create a distributed distribution network/system that could be used to distribute any kind of large file. a baby akamai. the cost of the hardware/servers is low enough to make the economics work.

the use of a bittorrent like app could be used to effectively handle the redundancy for the transfer of the files/content.

provide a complete solution for the owner of the content, including the payment processing function. focus on providing the needed infrastructure to allow anyone to upload their large file content, and to be able to distribute it on the network to the potential customer. allow the user to accommodate different payment approaches. all of this is simply technology/implementation.

you’d need ~10-20K servers to really make an impact.

if implemented correctly, you’d have a system that would essentially become a digital distribution network. rather than a p2p kind of network, this approach would be managed, reasonably secure, and able to handle seriously large amounts of traffic.

owners would be able to upload their digital content, with the end user being able to download the content to burn to cd/dvd… security could be easily accomplished by requiring the end user to use an app to download the content/decrypt it/burn it/etc… it’s not that hard to be able to have the person who downloads the app to have the content embedded with key information for the given person/user.

the idea/approach is to be able to essentially create a unique copy of the movie/content for each user who wants to download the content. this approach allows the owner/distributor to track the content back to the rightful owner.

this kind of approach would open up the market for movies to the entire arena of people who are looking to sell/distrbute their movies, at a price point that would be doable w/r to the bandwidth required to deliver the content.

the overall system would provide a robust api, allowing various sites to insert widgets for the movies/content, as well as allowing owners to track their content within the network.

peace…

http://www.flic...@N00/381892877/

The recent entrants (Apple, Amazon, Walmart) are getting it completely wrong: the market for *purchasing* video downloads is small. The market wants pay-per-view/rentals. That’s why the Netflix offering will be appreciated and why the networks are having great success streaming TV shows at their web sites.

And the opposite is true, US IPs are also forbidden to access those services
It’s not a matter of who’s stupid or not … it’s just the copyright owners who are deciding that they want to control where their content is seen so they can
still manage their release calendar.
If movies and DVD were releases globally at the same time, I think all services would sell globally, it’s just not the case yet.

Re: “Why would you pay DVD price for a download you can’t easily play on your TV?” … CONVENIENCE : you’re able to download the movie within minutes without leaving home and without having to watch THAT specific DVD that you added to your queue maybe months ago. Now yes it’s expensive but some folks don’t care about money.
The rental prices on those services is usually $2.99 or $3.99 which is close enough to the prices you get via Netflix or the local video rental store and again without having to go out or wait for mail.