Is Napsterization of Video at Hand?

Posted on March 4, 2009

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If you are curious to know whether the video industry is at the threshold of “Napsterization” much like the record label business was ten years ago, this video is for you.

It is hard to believe that it was fully ten years ago that Shawn Fanning unleashed Napster P2P software that forever changed the record label business.  Napster demonstrated beyond any doubt that the Internet was going to become the natural distribution platform for all Digital Media files. In order to prosper, or even survive, the established business models would have to adapt. It was obvious that the record label industry was the “canary in the coal mine” and that ultimately there would be a day of reckoning for the video producer as well.

That day of reckoning has arrived for two reasons. Read more…