 Rogue WolfAte Your Homework, And Framed The Dog
join:2003-08-12
Troy, NY | Too Many Fingers In Hulu's Pot, Stirring Up Trouble Am I the only one who believes that many major "content companies" want Hulu, and everything like it, to fail? Then they can point at its smoking corpse and say "There, see? We tried to use the Internet and it didn't work. Now give us more restrictive laws and chain down the Internet so that we can continue to cling to our outdated business model."
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 BF69Premium
join:2004-07-28
Camden, TN | said by Rogue Wolf:Am I the only one who believes that many major "content companies" want Hulu, and everything like it, to fail? Then they can point at its smoking corpse and say "There, see? We tried to use the Internet and it didn't work. Now give us more restrictive laws and chain down the Internet so that we can continue to cling to our outdated business model." Logically that won't work. All that will do is increase people illegally downloading content. Of course I don't expect the guys running these companies to actually use logic.
Look at all the tens of billions of $$$ that the music industry lost because they spent 10 years not embracing the digital age. Now tha they got rid of DRM the number of legally purchased digital songs is increasing all the time, but still record companies aren't selling as much as they COULD have because 10 years of fighting potential customers meant a whole generation got turned off and got use to the idea of FREE music and they'll never get most of them back. That generation is now having kids and teaching them about how to get "free" music. Within 12-15 years, maybe less, the music industry will have no chocie but to give out music for free or for dirt cheap. |
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I don't think they want it to fail. However, they also don't want it to succeed completely either. They want it to be successful enough that it reduces piracy but not so successful that people start regarding it as an alternative for watching cable TV. I don't think that's a balancing act Hulu can pull off. Either it will succeed, in which case people will push for it to become a TV-Replacer, or it will fail, in which case people will look elsewhere for a TV-Replacer.
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KearnstdElf WizardPremium
join:2002-01-22
Mullica Hill, NJ | maybe they want to treat it like free samples, get the public addicted and then charge for the good stuff and hope people will pay for it.
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**Most** of the new music coming out is crap anyway. Eh, I must be getting old. |
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