Alternative zu Hollywood
Hollywood appears to have peaked. […] But this is not an ordinary industry. The people who run it are so mean and so politically connected that they could do a lot of damage to civil liberties and the world economy on the way down.
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The main reason we want to fund such startups is not to protect the world from more SOPAs, but because SOPA brought it to our attention that Hollywood is dying. They must be dying if they’re resorting to such tactics. If movies and TV were growing rapidly, that growth would take up all their attention. When a striker is fouled in the penalty area, he doesn’t stop as long as he still has control of the ball; it’s only when he’s beaten that he turns to appeal to the ref. SOPA shows Hollywood is beaten. And yet the audiences to be captured from movies and TV are still huge. There is a lot of potential energy to be liberated there.
Y Combinator ist ein Angel Investor aus den USA. Paul Graham, der Ober-Chef, hat eine lange Geschichte von erfolgreichen Investitionen, unterstützt allerdings häufig auch wirklich ausgefallene Ideen. Allein die Vorstellung, was durch Leute wie ihn möglich ist, in diesem Bereich ist großartig. Ich hoffe, dass sich dort etwas entwickeln kann. Denn wenn diese Industrie einmal anfängt durch moderne Technologien die Vermarktung zu erweitern, sind dem Ganzen kaum noch Grenzen zu setzen.
via Daring Fireball
