In a way, it's kind of sad. The old media squealing and squirming, trying pathetically to hold on to a time that has long been lost to the sands of... Well, time. Jeff Zucker, President and CEO of NBC, made such a pathetic attempt before a US Congress committee yesterday, claiming Boxee stole Hulu's content.
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Guess I just stole the latest episode of 24 I watched today on my Ubuntu system via Hulu since, you know, I doubt Canonical nor Mozilla nor even Adobe have a distribution deal with Hulu, NBC, Fox, etc etc... wow, being a thief isn't as hard as I thought. 
That has to take the cake for the stupidest thing I've heard so far this year. It even wins over the Joo Joo.
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Reminds me of an old time technical person I was working with. About some legitimate well-developed software (controlled development in fact) that happened to have an outlet via sourceforge he stated "I don't trust anything from that site".
times sure have changed, old timers.
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times sure have changed, old timers.
Well times have not changed that much. There are some good projects in Sourceforge, but largely that site is a cemetery of open source source projects. Majority of stuff there is not really production-ready.
Things are of course much worse in something like Github where kids put their stuff without understanding a single thing about release engineering.
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Sad, really, that these people don't understand what they are talking about. I would've gotten the point if Boxee stripped the commercials or something, but that's not even the case. Oh, well, I don't have access anyways, since I'm not in the US - I really hate geographical restrictions :/
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Jeff Zucker took multiple money-generating franchises for NBC and flushed them down the toilet. The last two were the Tonight Show, which has been on for over 60 years, and Late Night, which has been on for over 30.
NBC at one time was a very large cash cow for GE. Now it is about to be acquired by Comcast, a cable company, because they lost their way and made a lot of bad investments that cost them billions of dollars. The last one was getting rid of their entire 10 o'clock primetime hour for Jay Leno, who is way past his prime and is IMHO not funny. He hired "Stuttering John" Melendez from the Howard Stern show as a writer, and now does old Stern bits in an unfunny way.
Jeff Zucker and Dick Ebersol will hopefully be shown the door by Michael Andreakis, the CFO of Comcast who really runs the show, when Congress approves their acquisition.
View him and Dick Ebersol as dinosaurs about to meet the meteor.
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It is greatly hoped in the industry that Bonnie Hammer will be given the big chair. She was responsible for greenlighting Battlestar Galatica on Sci-Fi and turning USA network into what it is today.
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After reading this story, I decided to give Boxee a whirl on my Ubu box
I was very impressed, and in no way saw how Boxee "stole" content from Hulu anymore than it "stole" content from CBS when I watched "Star Trek".....
There is no question the NBC needs a major shakeup, that Tonight Show fiasco was a disaster. More so not just for Conan, but for his staff that got more screwed over.
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The guy killed the shows Life, Journeyman and others. He deserves the door. Under his watch their ratings have plummeted.
With Comcast taking over controlling interest [whom I can't stomach] perhaps they'll be wise to phase him out.
His entire argument is as intelligent as it was for creating the entire Tonight Show fiascal.
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No, they won't allow it to wither. It's access to information for many people, and it gives them the ability to control a lot more of the marketplace. Comcast owns a few other networks, and has allowed them to prosper just fine, such as E!, Style Network, and their sports channels.
The problem with NBC has been that their smaller channels have been producing the good programming, such as Telemundo, Bravo, SyFy, and USA Network, and the main network can't program to save their lives.
Those who think that they will let the network wither underestimate how much money the evening news brings in, which is the reason why the Leno experiment was such a failure. You want to have a good lead-in to sell Comcast to people who don't own it already.
There's also 60+ years of programming to sell via distribution channels, which they will find a way to do.
If anything I expect the quality of programming to improve, as Comcast will put in programming that makes a profit and builds loyalty, not experiments.
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