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...before, I'll say it again. Right now, all NBC has to worry about undermining its tape-delayed coverage is Canadian TV and print stories on the Internet. These are only cracks in a technological dike that's bound to burst open: Future viewers will have more satellite and broadband options, and the network is foolish, in the Napster era, to think it can forever keep people from accessing the live content they want...
...Then again, this was a friendly audience for Gore. The questions swarmed mostly around broad social issues, such as abortion (See it here in Real Video on slow fast or broadband connections), race, guns (See it here in Real Video on slow fast or broadband connections), popular culture, race again, and medical marijuana - along with a few demographic pet issues like Napster and the intentions of hip-hop. They asked a lot of patently impossible, Miss America-type questions (Mr. Gore, what will you do as president to end pain and suffering?) and Gore did not miss any opportunity...
...ever spit out. And in politics, that's a good performance. He even did a couple of mini-Sister Souljahs, once when he set his jaw and told a redhead he was opposed to any form of marijuana legalization (see it here in Real Video on slow fast or broadband connections), and once at the end, challenging a young hip-hop Turk to "become the change you want in the world," instead of just moaning explicitly about it. Points for quoting Gandhi, history's ultimate noodge...
What's going wrong? Part of the problem is that the audience just isn't there yet. Even brief online movies require hefty broadband connections such as a cable modem or a DSL. Most of us are still chugging along on 56-K modems, and would rather watch TV than wait half an hour for a jerky postage stamp-size short to load. So until broadband goes mainstream, online entertainment networks have the near impossible task of building a brand in a near vacuum while burning as little cash as possible. "It's like Survivor," says Kevin Wendle, co-founder...
DivX movies are still too large to download with a 56K modem, which means that DivX won't become a serious threat until broadband becomes more popular, but the legal fur has already begun to fly. Last week the Motion Picture Association filed suit against Scour www.scour.com) a website that runs a file-exchange community popular with DivX fans and that counts among its investors Hollywood power Michael Ovitz. It's doubtful that a successful verdict will stem the tide. Most DivX movies are stashed away on private servers, hard to find but accessible to those in the know...