There's a great opening for someone to make a billion dollars running a video service from a country other than the U.S. "We won't shut down the video of the event you just spent millions of dollars creating and promoting" is an easy selling point. You just have to make it almost as easy or as easy to use as existing services, and promote it a bit to broadcasters.
Management (including Dotcom) also emailed each other about downloading infringing material from their own service. And while they did better with DMCA notices than the likes of Oron, they were still pretty slack.
Quality mass streaming to the US might be difficult without using US infrastructure. And presumably if people start doing it by cloud based streaming nodes, Amazon could be forced to block instances.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2012/09/04/hugo_awar...
There's a great opening for someone to make a billion dollars running a video service from a country other than the U.S. "We won't shut down the video of the event you just spent millions of dollars creating and promoting" is an easy selling point. You just have to make it almost as easy or as easy to use as existing services, and promote it a bit to broadcasters.