Mark Cuban Claims Internet is Dead

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Ika

Ika

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Searched for reposts, didn't find anything.

http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=11287

Billionaire tries to outdo Michael Bay by delivering fiery speech against what he sees as dying online world

Famed internet-made billionaire and blogger Mark Cuban raised quite a stir this week when he announced dramatically, "The Internet?s dead. It?s over." The comments made by Cuban at the CTAM summit will likely strike many as eerily familiar of Michael Bay's HD DVD trashing rants.

Cuban became a billionaire when he sold Broadcast.com, originally Audionet, to Yahoo for $5.7B. Cuban built Broadcast.com into an online powerhouse after co-founding it with earnings from the sale of his company MicroSolutions in the 80s, an early reseller of Lotus Notes. Broadcast.com at its peak featured 420 radio stations and networks; 56 TV stations and cable networks; and live game coverage of over 450 college and professional teams.

He used his wealth to buy the Dallas Mavericks and while a blogger himself, has recently taken a rather scornful attitude to the internet, which made him wealthy. He recently created a stir when he became the first team owner to ban bloggers from an NBA locker room.

At the CTAM conference, Cuban's new anti-internet sentiment became vitriolic. He addressed the panel which consisted of cable systems providers stating, "The Internet?s for old people."

Cuban claims the internet has stagnated and that the only new invention on the internet was YouTube. Cuban, however, went to argue that YouTube is nothing more than a sham based on copyright infringement and represents little real creativity. Cuban feels that cable and satellite networks have overtaken the internet in providing complex interactive services. Cuban says he once thought the internet would be superior for providing such services, but remarks, "I was wrong."

He points to the openness of collections of cable networks versus networks built by telephone companies like Verizon, which are stymied by problems talking to each other. Cuban envisions cable services offering users suites of office applications or other complex utilities, something he says would allow them to leverage their superiority to "outgoogle? Google.

While Cuban believes strongly that cable intranets are superior to internet, most experts think his claims are very off base. They state that his proposed cable systems applications sound remarkably similar to the cable television network flop @Home, which attempted to market a higher-speed "private" internet, that was separate from the normal internet.

While Cuban is known for a flare for histrionics and outbursts, his collected, deliberate speech about his animosity for the internet is sure to stir up a great deal of controversy.
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MotionMan

MotionMan

Lifer
Jan 11, 2006
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Is Cuban channeling Haldeman and Nixon? See below:

From the Book of Lists #2, page 483, published in 1980:

?6 OUTRAGEOUS PLANS THE DIDN?T WORK

6. THE WIRED NATION

In his book The Shadow Presidents, author Michael Medved relates the extreme disappointment of H.R. Haldeman over his failure to implement his plan to link up all the homes in America by coaxial cable. In Haldeman?s words, ?There would be two-way communications. Through computer, you could use your television set to order up whatever you wanted. The morning paper, entertainment services, shopping services, coverage of sporting events and public events?.Just as Eisenhower linked up the nation?s cities by highways so that could get there, the Nixon and Haldeman legacy would have linked them so that you wouldn?t have to go there.? One can almost see the dreamy eyes of Nixon and Haldeman as they sat around discussing a plan that would eliminate the need for newspapers, seemingly oblivious to its Big Brother aspects. Fortunately the Watergate scandal intervened, and Nixon was forced to resign before ?the Wired Nation? could be hooked up.?

MotionMan
 
meltdown75

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People that spend too much time on the internet end up being annoyed by it? Say it isn't so.
 
KLin

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Originally posted by: sdifox
He should pay his isp so that they don't cut him off.
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He probably has his own OC3 running into this house. :laugh:
 
sdifox

sdifox

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Originally posted by: KLin
Originally posted by: sdifox
He should pay his isp so that they don't cut him off.
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He probably has his own OC3 running into this house. :laugh:
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The only reason internet is dead for him is because he has been cutoff :)
 
halik

halik

Lifer
Oct 10, 2000
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Why the hell does this douche bag still make headlines? His claim to fame is the worst acquisition in ALL of U.S. corporate history.

He needs to SHUT THE FUCK UP and limit himself to watching ESPN
 
Leros

Leros

Lifer
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Is this some kind of early April fools shenanigans? He says the cable networks are better than the internet. ROFL
 
IronWing

IronWing

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One key part of the internet is mostly dead, peer to peer support. Not the song stealing crap that has been labeled peer to peer (well it is peer to peer, but peer to peer offers so much more). The original vision was: buy a hookup to the internet and what you chose to do with your computer was your business. ISPs, in their greed, sliced and diced this model to death. Want to run a webserver from home? "Sorry, that violates your terms of service but We'd be more than happy to rent you some space on our server." Set up your own mail server? Nope, see the ToS. Gotta get that from us too. Ditto for streams, secure sites, scripting support. Killing peer to peer limits creativity by forcing users to work within the artificial limits imposed by the ISPs.
 
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