Posted On: 10/31/2013 12:37:03 PM
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Here's the more likely scenario. Alki will lose in the courts, forcing him and other more popular services to either cut a deal with them or remove the real networks from the stream. If they get removed, the user base of FilmOn drops dramatically.
If he can cut a deal with the networks, there are still the more popular services to contend with - Aero, Hulu, Netflix, etc. The $100 million ad campaign promise was just bluster from an insane Alki - no intention of following through on that IMO.
More on the courts - all networks have fine print on their programming that forbids public performance of said programming without prior consent. That's the FilmOn business model in a nutshell. Re-broadcast content from the broadcast networks and make a profit from said content without cutting the actual owners of the content in on the profits. No way the courts will let this stand. And without REAL programming on FilmOn, the viewer base vanishes.
If he can cut a deal with the networks, there are still the more popular services to contend with - Aero, Hulu, Netflix, etc. The $100 million ad campaign promise was just bluster from an insane Alki - no intention of following through on that IMO.
More on the courts - all networks have fine print on their programming that forbids public performance of said programming without prior consent. That's the FilmOn business model in a nutshell. Re-broadcast content from the broadcast networks and make a profit from said content without cutting the actual owners of the content in on the profits. No way the courts will let this stand. And without REAL programming on FilmOn, the viewer base vanishes.
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