Open Internet For All Indie Filmmakers?
By Art Brodsky, Public Knowledge
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There's no getting around the fact that the Internet will be the lifeblood of independent filmmakers and videographers. You will need it to make your products, to edit collaboratively and, most of all, to have a distribution mechanism so that the public can see what it is you have produced.
It's not secret that the media business is being consolidated. The Department of Justice and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will review the purchase of a major television network/film studio/cable channel supplier by the largest provider of broadband services. Congress has already held hearings on the Comcast takeover of NBC Universal. Even some members of Congress who favor the merger have even raised questions about how the deal would affect independent producers. In not too short a time, it will be the Internet or next to nothing in terms of distribution.
In order for online distribution to be a realistic alternative, however, the Internet has to be a transport medium favorable to independent filmmakers. That means two things. First, the technology of the Internet network has to be of sufficient speed and quality so that movies can be transmitted for viewing smoothly and easily, and that the consumer has a smooth viewing experience without stops and starts, and of sufficient deployment and affordability so that consumers will have the opportunity to take advantage of
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