Where does your entertainment dollar go?

December 1, 2006 on 10:11 am | In Bitmunk, Industry, Music, Television, Movies and Video | 3 Comments

Where does your entertainment dollar go? How much should you be paying for music, movies and cable television? You would be surprised to find out how much of it is not going to the places you want it to go.

This article proposes a new method of distributing media that benefits the people that matter the most: the content creator and you, the customer. It is called Collaborative Content Distribution and it could save US citizens $85.4 billion dollars a year in cable and Internet fees, read on to learn more…

3 Comments

  1. This is an extremely wonderful and well thought out essay. I would love for everything to happen like that, and to tell you the truth–if we are ever able to build this model I will GLADLY pay $20-$30 more to keep commercials out of my life.

    On the other hand, I don’t see this happening. I hope I am wrong. What you are proposing is to cut out the middle man, who gets at least $92 Billion a year to provide us with "entertainment". With this much money on the line, I really don’t see the big telecom just "giving up" their content. They will surely put up a hell of a fight to preserve the old model. Just look to what they did to "a-la-carte" model that was just floating around a couple of years ago.(ability to buy only cable channels that you want). This had an overwhelming support among the Congress and the General Public who is sick of paying $100 a month to basically watch their 3 or 4 favorite channels. There were even hearings on the Hill scheduled. And what happened? Poof! GONE! Not even a peep.

    Comment by BrooklynNY — December 12, 2006 #

  2. It’s not so much the networks that control the conent of our favorite entertianment shows on tv as much it is the companies that advertise. It’s sort of scary that a cat food or plastic company has a lot of control over our favorite sitcom or reality show!

    Comment by Luke Schmucker — January 23, 2008 #

  3. Hi,

    I am looking for an open source solution that I could install on my own server so I can distribute my music my self without giving away precious % to middle sites, plus getting paid in 60 plus days…

    Anyone knows of something like that?

    Thanks in advance,

    Thierry Deruelle
    http://www.dztd.ca

    Comment by Thierry Deruelle — May 23, 2009 #

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