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- monkeychow
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Re: Breaking Down The Loot
I just couldn't fathom how they allowed it 'for free', since video space & gigabites etc were extremely expensive back then. My PC could hold about 20 minutes of video I think, and there these guys were making software & a website where its free?!
Yeah it's embarrassing now but I thought it would fail for that reason.
Like in those days digital video was still pretty technologically demanding - lots of space required - lots of bandwith - slow times.
Here's people saying they will let anyone in the world upload anything for free. Didn't make sense to me as a business model - like firstly it would violate copyright most of the time - and after Napster it seemed that could cause legal issues - secondly the idea of the infinite storage and servers needed....figured they'd burn themselves out or have to start charging.
I've predicted a few things in my life, but yeah, totally off on that one.
Re: Breaking Down The Loot
PaSnow wrote:I remember a video where Slash is just wrecked back in the day, and has trouble figuring out the progression for the WTTJ intro.
Thanks, I sometimes have trouble finding that. Sick rasp by Axl at the end, man, hard to believe he could pull that off back in the day. I'd lose my voice for 2-3 days if I tried it now.
Re: Breaking Down The Loot
PaSnow wrote:I just couldn't fathom how they allowed it 'for free', since video space & gigabites etc were extremely expensive back then. My PC could hold about 20 minutes of video I think, and there these guys were making software & a website where its free?!
Yeah it's embarrassing now but I thought it would fail for that reason.
Like in those days digital video was still pretty technologically demanding - lots of space required - lots of bandwith - slow times.
Here's people saying they will let anyone in the world upload anything for free. Didn't make sense to me as a business model - like firstly it would violate copyright most of the time - and after Napster it seemed that could cause legal issues - secondly the idea of the infinite storage and servers needed....figured they'd burn themselves out or have to start charging.
I've predicted a few things in my life, but yeah, totally off on that one.
lol. I guess I don't recall my predictions of YT much. Honestly I just thought it'd be free for a few years, then charge people to either upload, or watch, but wasn't sure which. I think I read at one point after Google bought it they were losing a million dollars a day. It was just the potential they wanted.
Surprised they never did encounter copyright problems, as really thats mostly what it is. I know they/google worked better with holders and eventually came up with the ad-sharing scheme. I remember Prince & Kid Rock held out very long on it. I think most big corporations just saw it as a future of revenue, instead of asking for the cash upfront. In the end, probably a good move.
Napster really fucked up. That guy had such a great idea, and billions coming to him, but he chose to play hardball in a losing argument.
- Smoking Guns
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Re: Breaking Down The Loot
Smoking Guns wrote:PaSnow wrote:I remember a video where Slash is just wrecked back in the day, and has trouble figuring out the progression for the WTTJ intro.
Thanks, I sometimes have trouble finding that. Sick rasp by Axl at the end, man, hard to believe he could pull that off back in the day. I'd lose my voice for 2-3 days if I tried it now.
That clip is so fucking badass. I love how Slash looks at Matt and is like "help me out etc" and then starts moving his head like "I got this shit now" lol. Fucking legends.
Re: Breaking Down The Loot
Napster really fucked up. That guy had such a great idea, and billions coming to him, but he chose to play hardball in a losing argument.
It was too far ahead of its time. No one was ready yet. Imagine youtube coming out in 99-00. It would be dead on arrival.
