Everyone in the world does not want to stream TV at once during prime time.

Another streaming service’s growth will almost certainly be at the expense of Netflix and the other entrenched players.

Never mind the fact that you’ve totally missed the mark on what Google TV actually DOES. Sorry Mark, but you’ve got this one completely, moronically, wrong.

Streaming goes away, pirating will increase on a scale that has never been seen before. Streaming services from other countries offering content to people who will pay them for it.
This nonsense needs to stop. As far as the price of internet going up……….marginal at best. Any smart company would have been building bandwidth over time as it was clear that this day was coming. If said companies decided to take profits at the expense of maintaining and expanding their networks, well they will lose both customers and profit to those who were smart enough to do so. I know I am not willing to pay anymore for internet access and in fact think the price is beyond reason right now.

Businesses need to start thinking about social responsibility before they start thinking about profit. trust me, if the productive capacity is there, the profit is there. No need to worry about that.

Another big issue here that no one in the media industry seems to be considering is that you have way more competition than you used to for eyeballs. I as a consumer can play MMO’s for about $15 a month. Get involved in my community for next to nothing. Read over 1,000,000 ebooks and counting for nothing.

Why in the hell do you think I would pay you MORE for your somewhat dubious video content?

You people need to wake up and notice the herd of new content producers who are not only capable of competing with you, they are going to come along and gather up your eyeballs and carry them away if you don’t provide something similar to what they are. Many of these new content providers are only doing it for personal enjoyment and or a simple living, thus offer it for nothing, or very cheap. If are unwilling to compete against them you are going to FAIL on an epic level.

Consumers are going to have to learn that nothing is for free? What a laugh. I can watch youtube videos until I die and never run out. I can read free ebooks until I die and never run out.

Businesses are going to have to learn to survive on the all you can consumer model or they will be marginalized to the point of bankruptcy.

If Google or other technologists wants to contribute to changing the game, there are two things that need to happen:

Technologists must partner with someone who owns all the rights to a live event, like Mark Cuban or Comradity, to prove that there is exponentially incremental revenue from integrating high production value video and audience participation. Until there is proof that there is a business reason to integrate live video transmission and interactive applications, these dimensions of entertainment and information will be separate and distinct.

Develop a platform for sharing and discovery which both respects the right of individuals to control the info they share and makes it easier to discover the quality in the long tail. This is what Google promised to do. But we ended up with a system designed to usurp individual control over the info shared to enable 3rd parties to “game” the system so Google could make money. I have no idea why they aren’t using all that cash to figure out how to do what they promised to deliver in the first place.

Mark is right. It is stupid to treat the 5% of the content that people and sponsors will pay huge premiums to participate in like the junk people will not pay for.

my point was i didn’t want to go as far as dan (two commenters above me), but cuban’s argument about bandwidth fails because it extrapolates netflix’s future bandwidth needs “to rule” the streaming universe while assuming that same bandwidth remains a constant.

not gonna happen