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Reinventing the boob tube

Adding peer-to-peer file sharing to viral video could be a formula for changing how we watch television

SAN FRANCISCO (Business 2.0) - Dmitry Shapiro wants to reinvent television – and he's counting on help from the millions of fans of Internet video.

Shapiro's formula is part Napster (Research), part Amazon.com (Research), and part YouTube, the popular site where users view each others' homemade videos. By combining peer-to-peer file-sharing technology, collaborative filtering, and the popularity of viral video clips, Shapiro is hoping to create a killer app for Internet video.

http://money.cnn.com/2006/03/02/technology...y0302/index.htm

This will be the winning business model.

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