Nick Denton's Tom Cruise Scientology Bandwidth Bill $118, 000, Talks It Down To $10, 000

Remember the Tom Cruise Scientology video Nick Denton made famous a couple of months back. You know, the one where the ever-so-crazy actor preaches about the bizarre Hollywood religion founded by L. Ron Hubbard. Well, to date the video has had nearly 3 million views on Gawker and we'd imagine that many page views would bring in a fairly sizable chunk of coin. But rumor has it that Nick Denton's bandwidth bill from the embedded YouTube video was a whopping $118, 000 from his provider Panther. Apparently though, Denton, famed for the things that come out of his mouth managed to talk the bill down to only $10, 000. For comparison sake, I would love to see a comparison between the bandwidth bill and the revenues the Cruise vid generated. Then we'll really see if there is a case for online video.

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Posted by Justin Davey at March 19, 2008 10:23 PM