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Thursday, May 19, 2005

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Alex Rowland

Michael, I'm curious as to how Mike came up with that number. Essentially, you can seed as much content as you want over any pipe. The initial download might be painful, but one the content is seeded with a few people, Bittorrent begins to take care of the rest. The $0.02 seems arbitraty. Frankly, my big problem with OMN's business model is that they're going after the studio content. Studio's don't want to open up their archives yet (for a variety of reasons, most of them silly). It's going to be a hard slog to make that happen. Meanwhile, the rest of the world is moving towards open ad supported models. I think they might get stuck in the middle, neither being able to deliver on the bredth of studio content necessary to drive participation, nor the citizen's media content that is going to be a big driver of participation faster than most people realize. I wish them luck, but the model is a bit of a kluge in my mind.

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