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AtomFilms shows movies like the parody Saving Ryan's Privates free on the Internet but hopes to distribute them everywhere. That's the beauty of digital media: content can be diced up and repackaged in any conceivable way and shown anywhere, from airplanes to elevators. In the future, there will be no boredom...
...biggest Internet player that sends monthly bills to its customers, will charge micro fees to use the Web to watch movies or listen to music. That means it will be able to do something that many have tried to do online: make money, possibly tons of it, by selling content...
...content sites are booming, then, partly because there's a heady smell of money in the air. More than 50 sites patterned after TV networks are jostling for eyeballs--from Shockwave.com which has a deal with Matt Stone and Trey Parker to show South Park episodes, to the all-animated Icebox.com which has signed ex-Seinfeld co-creator Larry David, to the girl-friendly Voxxy, which has hired Jennifer Aniston to produce a weekly series. All of them are lousy with money. "This is going to be Hollywood's Vietnam. There's going to be a lot of money spent...
...best part of the new entertainment economics is that you don't have to commission people to give you content; in fact, it's hard to get them to stop. Especially the filmmakers. Boston-based Todd Verow, 29, has already released five digital features, including Shucking the Curve, which is about fashionable East Village junkies; he plans to make 10 more by the end of the year. Lance Weiler and Stefan Avalos, two freelancing filmmakers, spent all of $900 in 1997 to shoot a digital-video movie called The Last Broadcast, which, like The Blair Witch Project, was a mockumentary...
...Napster is the greatest example of aiding and abetting a theft that I have ever seen," says Ron Stone, manager of Bonnie Raitt and Tracy Chapman, among other artists. "Ninety-nine percent of their content is illegal." What really bothers Stone and the rest of the biz is the fact that 100% of their content is free--no money for the labels, artists or managers. "Napster is the nail in the coffin if you're in the business of selling digits on a disc," says music-industry consultant Jim Griffin...