Hollywood competition: p2p
p2p news / p2pnet: Here’s an interesting coincidence: we’d literally just posted an item on Ian Clarke’s latest, the money-earning Revver video app, and went to check our email where we found something from frequent p2pnet tipster Masha, over in Israel.
She’d seen a post on the Popular Mechanics (Yup – Popular Mechanics ; ) site which kicks off, “The entertainment industry’s real threat isn’t piracy, it’s backyard Spielbergs armed with digital moviemaking gear.”
Revver was custom built to give indie video makers a way to earn with their productions and, “I think the entertainment industry is scared to death of amateur content, and wants to make life difficult for amateurs and alternative distribution networks. That’s because technology poses a threat that the studios don’t know how to handle,” says Glenn Harlan Reynolds, going on:
“Producing a film or a record once took rooms of expensive equipment and armies of technicians. Getting the finished product to the public required billions of dollars in infrastructure – theaters, stores, radio and TV stations. Now you can make a movie or an album at home, cheaply. I know – I’ve done both. As for distribution? Just hit Enter.”
Then the punch-line:
“We may be bigger media geeks than most, but there’s nothing special about my family – we’re doing the same thing as millions of other Americans.”
And it’s not just Americans. In other words, the Big Seven movie studios are starting to experience the same, painful reality the Big Four record labels have been having to contend with for quite a while, now:
Thanks to the Net, they’re no longer the only games in town.
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See:-
money-earning – Revving up with Revver, October 27, 2005
Popular Mechanics – Watch Out Hollywood, October Issue, 2005
