| so much 2 cover The base of this problem is of course that the media/content distribution companies can't seem to pull their head out of their arses, and realize that the internet changes everything. They can't hold on to their old business model and expect to survive. The opportunistic part of me would say that maybe just maybe they should realize that the internet actually gives them a wider audience....if..and thats a big if....if the price is right and you don't restrict your users rights(you're not restricting the pirates, your just screwing over your paying customers, the only way to win is make it easier to get the legit stuff than the illegal kind, and hence the importance of price). You should instead increase the rights of yours users say by enabling an on-line backup of any purchased content that allows them to re-acquire that content if they should lose their copy. Of course you would charge only a small bandwidth fee for re-acquirement. I don't know about you guys but I can't think of the number of tapes, CDs, DVDs, and VHS(tapes) I've had to repurchase because the "studio" didn't offer an easily accessible system by which to receive backup media. Makes me wonder how much money those same "studios" have made off of purchases made to require content which was lost, and how much that inflated demand in the retail marketplace. I could say the same thing of big time software companies that price their software very high(adobe, ms, I'm looking in your direction) when they could price it much less and reach a wider audience. There are a lot of people out there who have to consider how every bit of money is spent, me included. Linux is free and it has come a long way. Open source is banging on the door of a lot of companies who will see their business model go down the crapper if they don't seize opportunities instead of holding on to the past. Alan Greenspan? Since when does anyone listen to the ex-mouthpiece of a private bank run for profit which is slowly robbing the American people of their wealth. I say robbing because wealth is never destroyed, merely transferred(usually into the pockets of big companies who then relocate out of the country). The same guy who oversaw the ending of the publishing of the m3, which tells you how much money(both digital and cash) is in circulation. That's important because this bank has the ability to devalue your money since your money is no longer backed up by physical assets. That's what paper money originally was...just a piece of paper saying you had physical assets worth such and such and this had been verified by a bank. America no longer has enough physical insurance to back up its currency and hasn't for some time(all the gold in Ft. Knox...what gold?) The Federal Reserve system is a private banking system set up to in-debt the American people. That the American people paid fully to set this bank up is just a side-note in the pages of history. |
