- From: Charles Pritchard <chuck@jumis.com>
- Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2012 16:51:18 -0800
- To: "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- CC: Mark Watson <watsonm@netflix.com>, Adrian Bateman <adrianba@microsoft.com>, Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>, "HTML WG (public-html@w3.org)" <public-html@w3.org>, David Dorwin <ddorwin@google.com>
On 2/23/12 4:42 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote: > Commercial video can be done right now. People make livings off of > Youtube, for an extreme example, doing short films. There are > increasing numbers of examples of long-form video making good money > when distributed without DRM, such as Louis CK's most recent comedy > tour video. Louis CK had no contractual obligations, his team failed to save money using P2P torrents and despite a million dollars in income, they still haven't spent $1k to get it subtitled. Just saying. They did use DRM via Amazon tokens timing out. It's similar to Netflix's method. Anyway, apples to oranges. -Charles
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