onenew - global thinking

Up to now, 2 big apps were offline: TV and phone.

Now, with millions of fan sharing TV shows ww with P2P software, there's no need to wait for your favorite show when it's already on the net.

http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2004/08/11/must_download_tv/index.html

The mass distribution of premium shows might worry Hollywood, but the main fear of media companies is bigger than that. Media firms make money from TV by keeping it scarce. Even considering the hundreds of channels now on TV, there are only a finite number of slots available, and there are hundreds of thousands of episodes of new and old television programs that might fill those slots. TV companies choose which shows to play when, and, because you've got no other choice but to watch what's on, you watch -- even if you might not particularly enjoy what's on. But would you continue to watch what the TV companies chose if you could find something you actually wanted to watch? Hollywood fears that you would not.