Would this site be considered [a monopoly]?

Arigatomina · Post by **Arigatomina** » Fri Nov 04, 2005 7:54 am

Scintilla wrote:
Arigatomina wrote:Just look at what yahoo is trying to do to Google's search monopoly...
Hasn't Yahoo's search engine been around for longer than Google's?

The engine, maybe, but once Google came out, it swept up a monopoly on searches of all kinds by being innovative enough to offer a similar 'starting' service that expanded to far more than that within a short period of time. If they get rights to scan and catelogue physical books, yahoo will never catch up. To tie that into this thread - imagine this competitor site offered legal and high-quality downloads of anime episodes for the members to edit with. Compared to the org where mum's the word, that's pandering right to the most common amv-member - the cheap ones who don't like using dvds, but who want their vids to be liked enough to go searching for raws/hq downloads.

imphill · Post by **imphill** » Fri Nov 04, 2005 8:09 am

The engine, maybe, but once Google came out, it swept up a monopoly on searches of all kinds by being innovative enough to offer a similar 'starting' service that expanded to far more than that within a short period of time. If they get rights to scan and catelogue physical books, yahoo will never catch up. To tie that into this thread - imagine this competitor site offered legal and high-quality

I know a site which fills the criterta above.
Am i allowed to post it?

Anyway - its all right, it does compressd AVI, and some of their catalogs are incomplete, but they got some of all the animes (all types).

Scintilla · Post by **Scintilla** » Fri Nov 04, 2005 11:37 am

requiett wrote:I like how after 6 years, people still have no fucking clue what this site is.

Did you miss the "for argument[']s sake[;] I know it would never" in the original post?

requiett · Post by **requiett** » Fri Nov 04, 2005 11:39 am

Scintilla wrote:
requiett wrote:I like how after 6 years, people still have no fucking clue what this site is.
Did you miss the "for argument[']s sake[;] I know it would never" in the original post?

I was referring to the so-called "monopoly" this site supposedly has on AMVs.

godix · Post by **godix** » Fri Nov 04, 2005 6:34 pm

Arigatomina wrote:The engine, maybe, but once Google came out, it swept up a monopoly on searches of all kinds...

Google got 46.2% of the search in July of 2005 (<a href="http://searchenginewatch.com/reports/ar ... ">proof</a>) . While that is a large % is isn't anywhere near a monopoly.

Which leads into my pet theory, a website can not hold a monopoly unless the users allow it to. A true monopoly exists because the entry for alternatives is too high (just try to get the capital required to lay down your own power grid for example). For websites the entry cost is so absurdly low that high school students can and do enter that game. Almost anyone who visits this site has the ability to start their own AMV fanpage and compete against the org but no one really has the interest to, at least not beyond studio webpages which really aren't the same thing.

There's also the minor fact that a monopoly is not inherently a bad thing. There is nothing wrong with the fact your town only has one cable company. Where the problem comes in is if the cable company starts abusing their monopoly by doing things like 'You must buy a cable modem from us or else we cut off your services entirely'. Notice that no one other than linux nerds cared when Windows gained a monopoly but once MS started using that to push IE down everyones throats the feds got involved. So who cares if the org has a monopoly or not? They aren't abusing it so there's no problem with the fact it's the largest AMV fan site.

SarahtheBoring · Post by **SarahtheBoring** » Fri Nov 04, 2005 6:47 pm

I don't think you understand what "monopoly" means, TNP.

The phrase you're looking for is "biggest AMV site on the web." There's a difference.

Signed, your friend, the dictionary.

dokidoki · Post by **dokidoki** » Fri Nov 04, 2005 10:06 pm

You want a monopoly? HERE'S YOUR DAMN MONOPOLY!

dokool · Post by **dokool** » Fri Nov 04, 2005 10:21 pm

dokidoki wrote:You want a monopoly? HERE'S YOUR DAMN MONOPOLY!

Is there any context for that?

Kalium · Post by **Kalium** » Sat Nov 05, 2005 1:19 am

dokool wrote:
dokidoki wrote:You want a monopoly? HERE'S YOUR DAMN MONOPOLY!
Is there any context for that?

Who cares?

trythil · Post by **trythil** » Sat Nov 05, 2005 5:38 pm

dokidoki wrote:You want a monopoly? HERE'S YOUR DAMN MONOPOLY!

Why the heck does Koop have Boardwalk and Park Place?