Thursday 17 April 2008

South Park does digital

My last few entries seem to have gotten a little heavy, so here's something that made me chuckle. It's South Park dabbling with the digital world and trying to work out how many 'theoretical dollars' it's worth.




And the conclusion?

Stan: Boy, I'm sure glad that's over with.
Butters: Me too!
Kyle: Yeah, but you know, I've learned something today. We thought we could make money on the Internet. But, while the Internet is new and existing for creative people, it hasn't matured as a distribution mechanism to the extent that one should trade real and immediate opportunities for income for the promise of future online revenue. It will be a few years before digital distribution of media on the Internet can be monetized to the extent that necessitates content producers to forego their fair value in more traditional media.
Stan: Yeah.

Yeah?