When HBO won a bidding war early this month to telecast My Second Life, it marked a media breakthrough - a television network buying an online property that was completely created in a virtual world. It's entirely likely that the deal is the tip of an iceberg, as virtual entities become hot properties. "This really presents the possibility of a new paradigm emerging, one where people can use virtual worlds to create content," says Douglas Gayeton, the filmmaker who created My Second Life, also titled Molotov's Dispatches, in a telephone interview. Gayeton will appear at VidFest Monday at 11:40...
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