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On the other hand I like indie musicians more as they try to innovate or make music for people more than just get their money and aren't connected to labels.
An interesting group – Singleton is an example.
I just wish we had it back when Firefly was dying.
I think there's a larger picture here. It's time to declare war on middlemen, period. There are producers and customers. There is no place for anything else in the 21st century. Here's a startup formula for you all: 1) Identify a place where a middleman is taking a cut or gate-keeping an industry. 2) Design a system, technology, or service that either eliminates the middleman entirely or replaces it with something fa…
Got a "B Ark" handy?
I think there's a larger picture here. It's time to declare war on middlemen, period. There are producers and customers. There is no place for anything else in the 21st century. Here's a startup formula for you all: 1) Identify a place where a middleman is taking a cut or gate-keeping an industry. 2) Design a system, technology, or service that either eliminates the middleman entirely or replaces it with something fa…
its unclear how we could profit by replacing the middleman without seeing similar incentives to become a middleman ourself.
I do a great deal of work with youth marketing so I have a slightly different perspective. I can't speak to music -- but films cost a great deal of money to make, and YouTube videos just won't replace that. If you look at the next generation of consumers (kids) they're watching more broadcast television than any other demographic, they're camping out overnight to see films like the Hunger Games and this may surprise…
But I totally agree with you that the strongest way to defeat Hollywood would be some "Anti-Hollywood" producing great media content appreciated by people watching it.
I think there's a larger picture here. It's time to declare war on middlemen, period. There are producers and customers. There is no place for anything else in the 21st century. Here's a startup formula for you all: 1) Identify a place where a middleman is taking a cut or gate-keeping an industry. 2) Design a system, technology, or service that either eliminates the middleman entirely or replaces it with something fa…
> It's time to declare war on middlemen, period. Got a "B Ark" handy?
I think there's a larger picture here. It's time to declare war on middlemen, period. There are producers and customers. There is no place for anything else in the 21st century. Here's a startup formula for you all: 1) Identify a place where a middleman is taking a cut or gate-keeping an industry. 2) Design a system, technology, or service that either eliminates the middleman entirely or replaces it with something fa…
Is there even any evidence that they are dying? Are their revenues falling year upon year, piracy advocates insist that they aren't.
I still see trailers every year for the latest $BIG_MEDIA_MOVIE with no sign of slowing down, how many movies you can fit on a 4TB drive is pretty irrelevant. Since the original iPod came out people have been able to store more music than they actually listen to anyway.
Anyway, what would replace it? Youtube? Half of their content is either scenes from TV/Movies or people talking about TV/Movies. Kickstarter? Yes for folks who are passionate enough to think about what they want and go out actively looking for stuff they might like. Many people just want to see a trailer for latest big blockbuster so that they know what to buy for their kids when they want some peace and quiet or what to talk about at the watercooler on monday.
What about piracy? Everyone seems to be firmly of the opinion that the cat can not be put back in the back with this one. Me, I'm not so sure. The feds are going after pirate websites with the big guns. Not to mention that on the whole the people who make your software and hardware are on the side of the content producers.
Since we are all going "Post PC" and many computers will become more like appliances, what's to say that your future Apple TV will even play any content that has not been directly licensed from iTunes and the like?
Look at the MSN Messenger/Pirate bay issue. You don't really need the government to do anything, the big tech companies can do it all by themselves.
What would happen if Windows 8 and the next OSX just flat out refused to let you navigate to a torrent website, or even install a torrent client?
Sure , you will have an underground scene of jailbreakers and people who still run open hardware etc but they won't be getting the subsidies on buying that new family entertainment system that everyone else is getting.
People are lazy and don't want to make their cultural choices themselves.
I think there's a larger picture here. It's time to declare war on middlemen, period. There are producers and customers. There is no place for anything else in the 21st century. Here's a startup formula for you all: 1) Identify a place where a middleman is taking a cut or gate-keeping an industry. 2) Design a system, technology, or service that either eliminates the middleman entirely or replaces it with something fa…
In fact in most cases that's all startups are, someone trying get between a customer and something they want. Hopefully adding some value on the way.
Facebook: Want to talk to your friends? Talk through us.
Dropbox: Want your files? Get them from us.
etc etc
If startups were serious about decentralizing anything they would be developing P2P protocols and open formats, not putting everything behind a big web app wall (with ads).
I think there's a larger picture here. It's time to declare war on middlemen, period. There are producers and customers. There is no place for anything else in the 21st century. Here's a startup formula for you all: 1) Identify a place where a middleman is taking a cut or gate-keeping an industry. 2) Design a system, technology, or service that either eliminates the middleman entirely or replaces it with something fa…
> It's time to declare war on middlemen, period. Got a "B Ark" handy?
The B-Ark was programmed to crash-land on a suitably remote planet on one of the outer spiral arms of the galaxy, which happened to be Earth, and the Golgafrinchan rejects gradually mingled with and usurped the native cavemen*, becoming the ancestors of humanity and thereby altering and distorting the course of the great experiment to find the question for the Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything, or so Ford Prefect presumes. A lot of them didn't make it through the winter three years prior to Arthur Dent's reunion with Ford Prefect, and the few who remained in the spring said they needed a holiday and set out on a raft. History says they must have survived.
People from Golgafrincham are called Golgafrinchans. In some versions of the novel The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, the planet is also referred to as "Golgafrinchan", but this usage is less common and is thought to be an error of typography.