 BF69Premium
join:2004-07-28
Camden, TN | reply to Rogue Wolf
Re: Too Many Fingers In Hulu's Pot, Stirring Up Trouble 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 Now give us more restrictive laws and chain down the Internet so that we can continue to cling to our outdated business model."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. |
