Agreed. It represents a trending technology use in mainstream culture. It's these kinds of little events that can lead to brilliant start up ideas. Let's stop being such pretentious 'hackers'.
One off the top of my head: Provision of camera and interactivity systems for concerts, so remote fans and musicians can interact better. Imagine if Folds could get 50,000 fans worldwide paying $10 to watch a gig with more interactive elements like this.
Maybe you're right and there's some hidden potential behind all of this. But the cynic in me just imagines 4chan members drooling at the prospect of ruining a show with shocking images and videos.
But if people were paying good money to be in such a system (for, say, a live gig).. maybe such shenanigans would be mitigated.
People will see this, and think "Woah. If I play on chatroulette, I could be famous".
I can see ways you could integrate that sort of PR into other startups.