I agree with both of you. The problem here is, that, like it or not, we have very little clout; a couple hundred thousand hits, hell a couple million, isn't even a drop in the bucket. We are very narrow in our reach. Especially as we tend to not lend our support to the mass markets of YouTube and MySpace.
Sure our shit is better, but so was Beta. Raising some shit is good, but a protest requires one of two things: media coverage to pressure the powerful or fear of the rabble storming the castle. This is the main reason that the pro-peace protests in the run up to the US Invasion of Iraq did nothing; there was no media coverage, and contrary to the Johnson-Nixon era, there was no fear of the rabble storming the castle. How do we give our protest teeth? How do we get the corporate media to cover things that run against their interests? Or... How do we get them to fear us storming the castle? Cheers, Ron Watson http://k9disc.blip.tv http://k9disc.com http://pawsitivevybe.com/vlog http://pawsitivevybe.com On Jan 4, 2007, at 10:35 AM, Mike Hudack wrote: > It's a really big Internet, and Heavy is much more concerned with > the 17 > year old boy sitting in front of his computer at 11 PM than they are > with you. How much influence do you have over that kid? > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [email protected] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Peter Van Dijck > > Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2007 10:28 AM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: [videoblogging] MyHeavy.com Tinfoil Version... > > > > Seems to me that we are doing quite well raising some shit. > > Don't think that laywers is the only thing a funded company > > is afraid off. Users raising shit scares them even more. > > > > Peter > > > > On 1/4/07, Ron Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > I don't want to be a broken record, and I really hate to > > admit that > > > I might have tinfoil hats tucked away for easy access, but > > if I were > > > interested in putting down citizen media, and I had billions of > > > dollars at my disposal, I would create a legal black hole > > to put folks > > > like Blip out of business. > > > > > > It seems to me that Mike, and all of us, have 2 choices > > here: fight a > > > David v Goliath through legal channels, or ignore it and become > > > assimilated into the corporate media machine. > > > > > > Neither one is very appealing to me. > > > > > > Anyone else have any thoughts about this? > > > > > > I want to know how these jokers got millions invested in them? > > > > > > (squares up tinfoil hat...) > > > > > > And furthermore... > > > What would be better than for open media to be killed by > > some of their > > > own: young, goatee'd, hip, etc? > > > > > > Cheers, > > > Ron Watson > > > http://k9disc.blip.tv > > > http://k9disc.com > > > http://pawsitivevybe.com/vlog > > > http://pawsitivevybe.com > > > > > > On Jan 3, 2007, at 10:03 PM, Casey McKinnon wrote: > > > > > > > I agree that we should blog about this, but I also feel > > they should > > > > not get the traffic... so perhaps we shouldn't link to them. > > > > > > > > I really wish we all had lawyers right now. > > > > > > > > Casey > > > > > > > > --- > > > > http://www.galacticast.com/ > > > > > > > > --- In [email protected] > > > > <videoblogging%40yahoogroups.com>, > > > "Jay dedman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > Forget posting messages to MyHeavy, post your > > messages where the > > > > > > investors will see them. > > > > > > > > > > John is right.....everyone should blog about it. > > > > > this is your power. > > > > > this is also how we all can educate... > > > > > we can also point to these blog posts in future incidents. > > > > > > > > > > anyone have an old Veoh post when they were > > re-uploading videos to > > > > > their service? > > > > > > > > > > jay > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > > Here I am.... > > > > > http://jaydedman.com > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Find 10000s of videoblogs and podcasts at http://mefeedia.com > > my blog: http://poorbuthappy.com/ease/ my job: > > http://petervandijck.net > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
