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Disney-Hulu Deal Is Ominous For YouTube 133

Hugh Pickens writes "Dow Jones reports that Hulu scored a big victory when Disney agreed to take a nearly 30% stake in Hulu and put full episodes of its ABC TV shows on the site, enabling users to see shows like Lost, Scrubs, Ugly Betty and Desperate Housewives for free. Disney views the move as a way to reach a new audience that isn't coming to the network's own website. Although the ABC.com website has attracted regular viewers of its shows, Hulu offers the opportunity to tap into a new group of viewers. Now Google is under mounting pressure to add more professional content to YouTube in order to attract more advertisers. According to Dow Jones' Scott Morrisson, the equity structure of the Disney-Hulu deal suggests that content creators want greater involvement in online distribution than Google has offered with YouTube. 'Content providers don't want to give (YouTube) content because the advertisers aren't there yet,' said Edward Jones analyst Andy Miedler."

Comment Linux builds and Open Source builds (Score 1) 402

I have no idea if this post will matter at this point, but nonetheless. the things i want to see from blizzard are the following: Linux Support, of any kind at all. Ideally a Linux build, if not then a Linux build that is really a Windows build that ships with a pre-configured copy of Wine, similar to what Picasa and Eve Online do. I really don't care if it's a Linux binary or a Windows binary as long as I can run it in Linux without having to work to get it working. Even if it is something as little as a constantly updated support page on your website that explains how to get it working in Linux with Wine, that would be better than what is being done now. I also want to see them open source the old version of the game engines as open source. That way they can be recompiled by enterprising developers to run on other platforms like Windows and Mac and oddball platforms like mobile phones. the id games like Doom and Quake and others have benefitted from this for years. As far as the actual game content goes, you can release it as abandonware or even charge $10 for a pack of it of some sort that would come with whatever version of the recompiled engine that exists for a particular platform.

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