Venezuela’s counter-revolution won’t be televised… but it will be on YouTube – Ars
RCTV journalists and producers have not been arrested or stopped from working, but their main link to the public has been removed. Rather than giving up, the station has turned to YouTube, where it now has its own channel for the show El Observador. A Colombian channel is also broadcasting RCTV content into Venezuela.El Observador clips have been seen 175,000 times since May 28, and the channel is currently the most-subscribed channel of the week.
I find this news item bittersweet. This is innovation, but as a response to injustice. Either way situations like these are surely going to spur alternative ways to distribute content in Venezuela. A crazy idea I would test is to sell DVD/Divx’s (kinda of big there) on the streets, encouraging the “piracy distribution channel”. Get creative with the ads: product placement, overlays, etc.
One thing to consider though, is that the government now owns the largest internet service provider in the country, and there already reports of them blocking opposition websites.
Update: CNN new website (in Beta, and preety cool btw) also has a video report on this.
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