FICCI Frames 2007
So, I went to the FICCI Frames 2007 Conference in Mumbai. Very crowded, and thronged by media industry from across the world. Interestingly, there was only one talk on UGC (User Generated Content), and everyone kept talking about DRM and IPR and such kind of primitive crap.
I don't understand when the TV industry is going to realize that UGC is actually beneficial to them, and stop pretending to have control. On one hand we have a rapidly growing mobile market with high-res cameras, along with hundreds of site which make it easy to post content. On the other hand, we have a small group of TV industry crowd trying to cope with loss of content control.
I tell you, humanity could have achieved the "Back to the Future", "2001 - A Space Odessey" world, only if we weren't spending billions of manhours trying to deal with myopic viewpoints.
Heck. I should just stop ranting probably, and go edit some videos or write some perl.
2 comments:
The dinosaurs ruled the world...and then they died. Ergo, TV and Film lord over the media space...and then they too will die. Unless of course, they smarten up, evolve and de-fossilize themselves in this digital age. I belong to this "TV industry" you talk about and do have hope that some of us understand, accept and are willing to change. May our tribe increase - or we'll all be looking for new careers in the next five years!
I just heard about this "made for internet" 80 segment TV show called Prom Queen. Of course, there have been a bunch already done before... but this one's getting quite a bit of coverage.
Agreed to all you say. You / we have an opportunity here Dilshad!!
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