'SingularDTV' Will Use Ethereum For DRM On A Sci-Fi TV Show (rocknerd.co.uk) 78
It's "an epic sci-fi adventure about the human race's journey into a theoretical technological Singularity." Or is it an "entertainment industry boondoggle...part DRM snake oil marketing, part pseudo-Bitcoin scam and part sincere Singularitarian weirdness?"
Long-term Slashdot reader David Gerard writes:
SingularDTV is an exciting new blockchain-based entertainment industry startup. Their plan is to adapt the DRM that made $121.54 for Imogen Heap, make their own completely pre-mined altcoin and use that to somehow sell two million views of a sci-fi TV show about the Singularity. Using CODE, which is explicitly modeled on The DAO ... which spectacularly imploded days after its launch. There's a white paper [PDF], but here's an analysis of why these schemes are a terrible idea for musicians.
'Singular' will be a one-hour adventure/drama "that explores the impact technology will have on the future of our planet and how it will shape the evolution of our human race," set in the years 2021 to 2045, "as an unprecedented technological revolution sweeps over the world..."
'Singular' will be a one-hour adventure/drama "that explores the impact technology will have on the future of our planet and how it will shape the evolution of our human race," set in the years 2021 to 2045, "as an unprecedented technological revolution sweeps over the world..."
Is this an AI post? (Score:5, Insightful)
Could not make any connection out of two readings of it.
I read the linked articles (Score:3)
Tech already solved some of those problems (Score:1)
Tech does work for getting into venues. It's called the "telephone" and there's a newer one called "email."
As for getting on the radio, tech "solved" (this is half bullshit and half perfect truth) that problem by making radio less important. Lots of people now can initially hear your band in other ways (thanks to tech) than just radio.
Is it free? (Score:2)
Like , whatever...?
Re: Buying vowels (Score:2)
Investment scam? (Score:5, Insightful)
This buzzword salad has to be some sort of investment scam. There's no way they can be delusional enough to think this is actually a revenue-maker.
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Where do they expect to find two million blockchain-coin users who want to watch and who are also willing to pay?
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Where do they expect to find two million blockchain-coin users who want to watch and who are also willing to pay?
I'll wait for the audio book...
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I only watch audio books written in braille.
Re:Investment scam? (Score:4, Interesting)
I only watch audio books written in braille.
3D!
Nice...
Re:Investment scam? (Score:4, Insightful)
I would like to raise "buzzword salad" in consideration for the phrase of the day.
I have low expectations from Slashdot editors, but (Score:5, Insightful)
this really manages to fall below them. Was there anything in that summary that was supposed to make sense?
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Oh good, I was afraid I was the only one who didn't understand a fucking word of the summary.
Re:I have low expectations from Slashdot editors, (Score:5, Interesting)
Oh good, I was afraid I was the only one who didn't understand a fucking word of the summary.
I recognized some of the words, but the meaning escapes me.
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I recognized most of the words in the summary, just not in the order they were placed in.
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Or a form of synesthesia. I read the summary and smell bullshit.
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enthusiastically predominate next-gen mindshare! (Score:5, Insightful)
Monotonectally facilitate efficient intellectual capital! Enthusiastically strategize strategic paradigms! Credibly productize leading-edge scenarios!
Re:enthusiastically predominate next-gen mindshare (Score:4, Informative)
^^^^^^^ Yeah, what jjeffries said.
And don't forget to leverage existing core-competencies for exigent customer-facing scenarios.
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Wouldn't it be better to leverage covalent technologies unifying synergies and distributing positive flow to resolve market wide confluence reversing neutron flux?
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Preach it, my MBA brother... AMEN!
Is there something to understand (Score:1)
Hi!
My first language is not english but i can't make sense of the post. Someone can explain?
Re:Is there something to understand (Score:5, Informative)
There's a company with something that's like Bitcoin, except that they mined a whole shitload of it first before releasing it to the public.
This company plans now to make a television show.
You can only watch this you purchase it, and you can only purchase it using their Bitcoin clone.
They have their own proprietary DRM that they think will prevent anyone from pirating this show.
This scheme (their DRM paired with their Bitcoin clone) has already been attempted by this company; it was previously used to sell a single from musician Imogen Heap. In that case, it made a whole $121.
It appears as though this is some type of scam, but it's not exactly clear how it's supposed to pay off for them. I speculate that they're going to throw the whole idea at investors and try to nab someone stupid enough to be blinded by the buzzwords, but I don't know.
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I went with +1 insightful, because there was no +1 god damn magical Turing like decoding power
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It appears as though this is some type of scam, but it's not exactly clear how it's supposed to pay off for them.
See, there's the problem...scams are supposed to be easily accessible and sound plausible to the end user, I mean, "mark".
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Original article author here: you have summarized the whole thing better than I did.
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"It appears as though this is some type of scam, but it's not exactly clear how it's supposed to pay off for them."
The true mark is the one that thinks they are in on the con.
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If you can only watch it by using their new coin, they probably want to build up a user-base. This will hopefully raise the price of the coin, making their pre-mined coins a lot more valuable.
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My first language is not english but
I would have thought that would be an advantage.
Wat (Score:2)
See title. 'Nuff said.
I'll wait... (Score:2)
Until they release it on Betamax...
I think I understand it? (Score:3)
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To perform the same actions and expect different results is ... par for the course, I guess.
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Some company wants to raise money to make a Sci-Fi show that can only be purchased via some BitCoin knockoff.
What are we supposed to buy the bitcoin knockoffs with...ears of corn?
If it's money, why not just use....money? Or would that not be buzz-wordy enough?
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Money is the best buzz word. It's the buzziest of words. They should just use that.
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That was my take also.
Unless they put out something like Axanar, they simply won't overcome the barriers to entry for the audience inherent in this approach for more than a negligible few.
No thank you (Score:2)
"Their plan is to adapt the DRM that made $121.54 for Imogen Heap, make their own completely pre-mined altcoin and use that to somehow sell two million views of a sci-fi TV show about the Singularity."
How about "no"? Does "no" work for you?
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OMG $121.54? That's an unheard-of amount of money. If the sci fi show makes even a fraction of that they'll be able to buy sandwiches for like ten people!
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You've obviously never worked in Craft services. That kind of money won't even buy the mustard to cut for 10 sandwiches :).
How low Slashdot has fallen... (Score:2)
...that they post reverse-get-rich-quick scams.
It's like a bad hi-tech variant on those spam messages touting obscure stocks.
"A fool and his money are soon parted" comes to mind.
Lol, here we go....... (Score:2)
"The DAO was a digital decentralized autonomous organization and a form of investor-directed venture capital fund.
The DAO was crowdfunded via a token sale in May 2016. It set the record for the largest crowdfunding campaign in history.
In June 2016, hackers exploited a vulnerability in the DAO code to enable them to siphon off one third of The DAO's funds to a subsidiary account."
Wow, what an awesome track record of security, lol. Thanks, but I'll pass.
Hey, EditorDavid... (Score:4, Funny)
microdoses of LSD... it's supposed to be MICRODOSES help you focus and be more creative. Taking several regular doses might make the day go by easier, but it won't help you write comprehensible shopping lists, let alone article summaries.
Sounds like unmitigated bullshit (Score:2)
I am not even sure that it is possible to determine what they actually want to do that is worthwhile under all the buzzword-camouflage. I am sure however that they will find enough idiots to give them money for it.
wake me up (Score:2)
Why things make money (Score:3)
About that singularity... (Score:5, Insightful)
Pretty much by definition, anything post-Singularity will be incomprehensible to anyone pre-Singularity, so any story actually based post-Singularity will either be faking it or be incomprehensible.
From the looks of that summary, they've got a pretty good start on the latter....
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Exactly.
How on earth can anyone produce a TV series about PS, when everything that ties us to our anthropomorphic, biocentric model of the world has been made redundant?
No individuality, no collective, no mortality, no sense of time (as we understand it), totally incomprehensible ideas of value.
Twits.
But on the other hand... (Score:1, Insightful)
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Human Readable Summary (Score:2)
Blockchain-based entertainment industry startup SingularDTV plans to use distributed computation network Ethereum to sell access to a new Sci-Fi television show about the Singularity. The Ethereum Blockchain is known for it's 'Smart Contracts' or distributed programs that can handle transactions of arbitrary tokens between different cryptographically signed accounts. Unlike Bitcoin, Ethereum Tokens can be created in any quantity at will for any purpose without the need for computationally expensive mining o
Singularity Sky, perhaps? (Score:2)
"as an unprecedented technological revolution sweeps over the world..."
I'm wagering ($0) it's something like this book.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
Charles Stross writes a good book, for sure, but it's a little slow... too slow for how this amazing tech could/should be used, by the general populace) to make it more exciting.