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Looking into the future of internet media sharing – Simon Tay

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I foresee the future…

In a few years time, there will be no more MPAA or RIAA or record labels or Hollywood.

In their replacement comes

1. Independent artists (Basically anyone with a talent)
2. Independent & outsourced technical specialist for music/movie production
3. Internet marketing via media portals like youtube, blip.tv and various other media streaming sites.

My suggestions to technical nerds listen up.

1. Advertise your expertise online on blogs or freelancer sites on music/movie editing/producing.
2. Showcase your works on youtube and or other media streaming sites and put a contact link
3. Put your price online

My suggestions to artist with talents

1. Kill your contract if any with labels or studios.
2. Become independent freelancer artist
3. Become your own producer
4. Learn as much as possible all technical know how from youtube to use softwares like garageband or iMovie.
5. Experiment with viral marketing

My suggestions to future streaming sites

1. Have a good automated system to check videos/audios upload to compared with registered copyrighted materials.

2. If found inform the uploader of the “Great” earning opportunity to put more descriptive “tags” of where the music/video is from, who the material belongs to, what quality it’s being copied (DVD/BlueRay/CD & etc), What category it belongs to (Horror, Comedy, Scifi Etc), self subtitle the video (more $)

3. Pay 90% advertising revenue to original copyright holders, 5 – 9% to media streaming host site, 1 – 5% to up-loader. (Depending on how much info the uploader provides like subtitles & above)

4. Uploader won’t get paid if the content (movie or audio) is duplicated content that’s already available at that site uploaded by others (of the same quality eg. DVD) but will remain payable to copyright holder & host (90% holder 10% host)

5. If songs are “covers” of existing songs e.g. youtube singers singing popular songs online will be given 30% ownership of the copyright holding of that cover while the original singer holds 70%.

6. If music are used for back ground sounds/music for videos then the same will apply 70% of the copyright goes to the music owner

7. If the music & movie are totally original from the uploader, the hosting streaming site gets 10% fixed & the rest goes to the content creator at 90%.

This system give the incentives to upload to servers in the future to be “employed” as “distributors” instead of illegal uploader.

The reason why this system works because without this system, with the terabytes of hard disk gets cheaper & faster bandwidth….it’s quite possible to host privately own servers at home with good encryptions shared download links with private individuals with password lock.

However, if websites/host pay users to upload self curated media contents to their servers…NO ONE will upload to torrent anymore…eliminating piracy totally.

Consumers will play streaming music & movies with advertising much like the ones on youtube or blip.tv now, with very specific targeted audience and information about “registered” users…advertisers will put more quality advertising to such media streaming sites!

Consumers can also PAY a monthly subscriptions to the service for no commercials when viewing but subscription pricing models like variable pricing model OR high fixed pricing model.

e.g.
Variable pricing model = (no. of video clips & music played per month) x potential advertising revenue
Fixed pricing model = High but fixed subscription cable tv pricing model per month
Free viewing = short videos have bottom pop up ads, medium length videos can have video advertising that can be skipped after 5 seconds, long videos can have full 25 -30 seconds advertising in between 30 minutes intervals.

THERE WILL BE COMPETITION to such online streaming media sites and the competition will be fierce depending on the infrastructure and user base.

1. Youtube – already established online viewer based both on desktops & mobile (Faster to approve videos but lower quality)
2. Amazon – Video purchase/subscription can easily add advertising model
3. Netflix – Same
4. iTunes – Same but with better curated contents by both uploader & content creators & Apple (Slower to approve but better quality)
5. Others – streaming sites are popping up everywhere

Other pirated sites in other countries have no choice but to follow the same system.

Objectives
1. Piracy – Eliminated
2. Content accessibility - GLOBALIZED.
3. Profitability – EVERYONE WINS.

Warning: Wikileaks A Possible False Flag?

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I have no idea what’s the big deal of Wikileaks until recently the news blew up with revenge DoS cyber attack by the public against any organization that crossed Wikileaks.

I feel that this whole event can be a possible false flag.

There maybe thousands or millions of sympathizers after Wikileaks leaks out videos of Collateral Murder that happened during the past Iraq war.

However, these videos may just be another types of “propaganda” efforts to lure the public to fall into the vigilantism trap.

Do not participate in any of these vigilantism against any organization as it will allows the government of the world to push UNFAIR INTERNET LAWS into effects such as an Internet Kill Switch, incredible censorship laws and other scary stuff.

Wikileaks maybe soon to be named as “terrorist” organization and anything linked to this organization such as donation or helping them maybe “prosecuted” by new laws that are “passed due to fear” in this FALSE FLAG.

A FALSE FLAG is about creating an big event and use this terrifying event to push UNFAIR LAWS (Patriot Act) and push countries into war(s) with a population that are in the state of fear.

If there really is a HUGE CYBER WAR by the public against organization such as Master Card, PayPal and other organization…then the world Government can easily use THIS CYBERWAR EVENT as JUSTIFICATION to LOCK DOWN THE INTERNET & Pass LAWS to PUT PEOPLE INTO CAMPS RESERVED FOR TERRORIST with NO TRIALS with only “SUSPICIOUS” links with Wikileaks.

Such links probably can be as simple as an donation, helped to spread Wikileaks information to sending BOTS to attack Organizations such as PayPal, Master Card or others unfortunate enough to be in the path of Wikileaks.

Kindly DO NOT PARTICIPATE in such activities and DO NOT LET the world government get ANY EXCUSE to criminalize the Internet users and Create UNFAIR Laws to CONTROL THE INTERNET.

Journalism should be NEVER be mixed with Terrorism or Vigilantism otherwise the government might clamp down on freedom of speech and CENSOR EVERY BLOGS, EVERY WEBSITES and EVERY INFORMATION published online.

There are government who tried to REGISTER EVERY BLOGS online with government agencies and limit their “freedom” of speech in some Islamic countries and if this FALSE FLAG becomes successful in creating sufficient FEAR in the public minds & amplified by the MEDIA & Government ….LAWS to LOCK DOWN THE INTERNET will come FAST & FURY.

Imagine you need to SUBMIT your blog post for “APPROVAL” before publishing or get CENSORED from the world view until your post get approved…or removing your domain names without much valid reasons other then writing blogs about things the politicians don’t like.

Social Networks such as facebook & twitter will become a dangerous minefields as whatever you said can be used against you in the court of law and by using NEW LAWS passed during such CYBER WARS EVENTS caused by FALSE FLAGS.

SO I beg everyone to remain calm and don’t participate in any of the activities linked directly or indirectly with vigilantism for WikiLeaks in the Internet.

Twitter should take the Google Deal

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According to Business Insiders:

Facebook is emerging as a serious threat to Google’s core business, and Twitter is the only “social” company Google can buy that might have a chance of combating this.

Read more: businessinsider.com

Twitter should take the $4 billion USD Google offer!!!!

Let’s list the reasons why

  1. Twitter needs a platform as robust as Google Search to display relevant real time twitter results with advertisement!
  2. Google needs a successful social network to display real time search results based on events happening now!
  3. Google MAY be able to recreate another social network with similar or better features in a short time if needed
  4. Twitter MAY get serious competition from other social networks like facebook as facebook employs more twitter like features.
  5. Twitter MAY comes out with their own search but will never be as relevant as Google indexed search with proper algorithm for better results but may be good for real time news results but may never be as profitable without a proper way to monetize the result page properly
  6. If twitter is integrated into google search result, Google shall have the ultimate source of information gathering center for real time & indexed information online! With a new algorithm of most “shared” sorting probably give both twitter & Google the edge against facebook

This is a win win situation for twitter but maybe twitter is waiting for something, maybe even a bigger price tag?

The situation is will Google offer more money for twitter or make one themselves? Twitter is popular as it revolutionize news aggregation, communications, social networking and more using just the 140 characters words with good & SIMPLE privacy controls but it still lacks other things that makes facebook a tough competitor.

It lacks

  1. Automatic shorten URL
  2. In-line image/video preview thumbnail
  3. URL “voting”, “like”, “digg” number in URL mouse-over highlight
  4. Youtube like “search options” to sort search results
  5. “Reply to all” option (for easier #followfriday #FF)
  6. Cross platform emotion icons (Similar to emoji icons)
  7. Real human trends that totally eliminate API auto generated bots tweets
  8. Better ranking system based on influence level and not quantity of followers
  9. I can think of a lot more…if I can sit down with twitter OR Google and brain storm