Broadcast.com billionaire, Dallas Mavericks owner, and "Benefactor" star Mark Cuban is giving away a bunch of ideas for new businesses on his blog. They're potentially patentable, he says, but he's not inclined to file.
Cuban's ideas–like others that have materialized on his Web log–center around the emerging industry for personal video recorders (PVRs), such as TiVo, and video on demand (VOD). VOD is not as widely available as PVRs are, but the idea has shown some recent signs of life with a movies-on-demand deal between TiVo and Netflix, and with the VOD service–offering mostly obscure programming–of Akimbo.
Link to CNET's story.
Cuban says, "If I were a patent terrorist like some, I could probably even patent these ideas. Isn't it a shame that in this country today, you can have nothing more than an idea, do nothing with it, but still have a chance to make money?" Link to Cuban's blog entry with details on the proposed ideas.
