The Long Tail Ghetto

Blog Maverick exposes some of the ironies of the Long Tail:

• Whilst increasingly attractive to a certain kind of electronic reseller, it's not a place any genuinely ambitious content-creator will want to stay for any length of time
• Many will sign-up for OPM (Other People's Money) in order to break through the content ceiling and onto the vertical ramp
• Only the moderately successful further down the ramp will remain enthusiastic about user-uploaded versions of their content
• For those that have benefitted to the full from Big Money investment, losses due to copyright infringement will appear to outweigh any potential benefit from extra views.