As weird as Kim is, I truly wish him to be successful on this, just to shake things up.
Nowadays there's a monopoly on culture, if you're not in USA you can't buy software in AppStore, you can't listen to music on Spotify, you can't stream a movie on Netflix. DRM is a load of bullshit, country restrictions idem, and companies adopting it are in a comfortable position because while they have the government enforcing it on them, they also have no real competitors (torrent sites can't be considered competition - downloading a lot of stuff with dubious quality is simply not a convenient way to consume media).
How long would country restrictions and DRM last if there was a global, non-restrictive and convenient source of content?
Being that Dot-com is an online entrepreneur starting a startup and ironically this community is "hacker" news. I wonder how many of the HN members actually support him here.
[+] [-] hcarvalhoalves|13 years ago|reply
Nowadays there's a monopoly on culture, if you're not in USA you can't buy software in AppStore, you can't listen to music on Spotify, you can't stream a movie on Netflix. DRM is a load of bullshit, country restrictions idem, and companies adopting it are in a comfortable position because while they have the government enforcing it on them, they also have no real competitors (torrent sites can't be considered competition - downloading a lot of stuff with dubious quality is simply not a convenient way to consume media).
How long would country restrictions and DRM last if there was a global, non-restrictive and convenient source of content?
[+] [-] paulhauggis|13 years ago|reply
Anyone with money can do what he is doing. I'm really not impressed.
Create your own content? Now you are changing the world.
[+] [-] vmialik|13 years ago|reply
[+] [-] baggachipz|13 years ago|reply