Burns Keynote
Posted by Brett Tackaberry on March 14th, 2006
Burnie Burns, of Austin’s Rooster Teeth, just delivered the day four keynote presentation. Rooster Teeth is best known for their “machinima” video series like Red vs. Blue. Burns talked briefly about machinima but the bulk of his talk was looking at the changing landscape of the internet - examining the space where content providers, customers and the owners of the networks (you know, those mysterious companies that actually built and maintain that part of the internet that normally occupies the “cloud” part of the diagram) intersect. As telecom giants (and rightful owners of the internet infrastructure) like Verizon and AT&T get increasingly frustrated with content providers like Google and iTunes basically mooching off their system while we, the customers, enjoy the free lunch it seems like things will come to a head sooner rather than later. Burns predicted some pretty drastic changes in the flat-rate monthly payment model for net usage most of us have become accustomed to. Certainly doesn’t bode well for a company like Rooster Teeth that creates and publishes original video content.
