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Here's one of the best things I've read so far about the future of print media. Pat McGovern, founder and chairman of IDG, says that within three years, he expects 50% of the company's revenues will come from online media, 35% from print and 15% from events...
Pssst! Anyone want to watch the Warner Bros. blockbuster hit 300 for free online? If it's taken down by the time you read this, some other site will be streaming it for free. Guaranteed. Try here for instance. Or here. It cost $60 million to make, but it's yours for free, apparently. (Disclosure: WB is owned by Time Warner, which pays *my* salary...)
300 is only the latest movie to be pirated and given away online at sites all over the Internet. And it's graphic proof that the worst thing that ever happened to the TV and cable networks and movie studios was Google buying YouTube, and Viacom suing Google. Why? Because the Digital Diaspora has begun. Content, which was so easy to police when it all flowed to one place—YouTube—now is moving everywhere, at hundreds of video-hosting sites all over the globe.
What's going on now, in fact, makes the early days of Napster, when it was possible to download virtually any song for free, look downright innocent. Nearly any movie you'd like to watch, and any episode from any TV show, is now freely available online. Where there was once one YouTube, now there are hundreds—many in places where it's impossible for U.S. content creators to enforce copyright laws.
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