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well, I think its relevant to tech, vc, and startups.

An event like this exposes a chink in legacy media practices that could be distrupted by a new media player like youtube, or whatever.

If 60minutes had used a more modern distribution platform such as Apple TV or YouTube they could have programmatically squashed the distribution of the episode without the need to police their various global distribution partners. I mean frankly, global bespoke distribution deals are a terrible UX anyhow.

They failed to do that in this case and here is the fallout.





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