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And this is after two days with only 100 viewers at any given point. How is this thing going to scale? It's kind of funny once when some psychotic fan tells the cops that Justin knifed a guy, but how about when some psychotic fan shows up at his apartment with a knife?

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They're getting up to 350 viewers in the evening now. Not bad for 2 days. Wait until they hit the mainstream media and then things will get scary

I'm as optimistic as anyone and hope they do get a lot more attention, but let's not ignore the fact that they're still living off the post-launch high.

It remains to be seen if they can move people from novelty to loyal viewers and how big the audience is for this particular show. I'll definitely be tuning in regularly. Hell, I'd pay if they keep the quality good.

I don't think their business model is reliant on THIS show being super-sucessful-- they're building a platform to sell to other folks who want to do live video over the web. Think Paris Hilton and porn (not necessarily two different markets).

Screw paris hilton, I want my own channel!

This is EXACTLY what I've been saying. To me, thats just a testing/proving ground. Get some buzz about the idea, and then try to license it to reality tv shows/celebs/iraq war reporter/hot girls/anything else thats more entertaining than startup founders.

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