As I thought it was common knowledge, cell phones must be turned off in hospitals because of pacemakers and whatnot (not to mention its just plain rude). Actually, there was already talk about hospitals are allowing it cause it's been shown that cell phones do not interfer with hospital equipment.
Look at it this way; companies are gonna lock down (tm)s so much that they'll loose their name recongition. "Super Bowl" is no longer known as the Super Bowl anymore; it's "The Big Game". And that's how people regonize it. Here in another 10 years, when you say "Super Bowl", nobody's gonna know what you mean. This could be a good thing, for the people, in the log run. But definatly nothing by bad things for any big company pulling their (tm)s from everybody.
Hmm. That only works if the downloads aren't already available for free via BitTorrent. It doesn't do much to convince anyone of anything if you make a worse product more expensive.
Then you get into the realm of legalities. It's not legal to download the "free" versions off BT. In which, my comment still holds true.
But, do they pass the savings on to customers? Hell no.
Something I think was missed is that sometimes customers don't WANT their users to download everything. They WANT their users to buy the physical product over a software based download. I think this is one of those instances. In this instance, in order to "promote" their hardware DVD copies, they make the downloads the same price.
I've seen this tactic used on multiple occations. This isn't about savings, this is about demoting downloads while promoting their physical store copies
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Re: cell phones in a hospital
Actually, there was already talk about hospitals are allowing it cause it's been shown that cell phones do not interfer with hospital equipment.
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.. Loss of business?
"Super Bowl" is no longer known as the Super Bowl anymore; it's "The Big Game". And that's how people regonize it. Here in another 10 years, when you say "Super Bowl", nobody's gonna know what you mean.
This could be a good thing, for the people, in the log run. But definatly nothing by bad things for any big company pulling their (tm)s from everybody.
On the post: Studio Embracing P2P While Missing The Point
Re: Savings cost? or attempt to push product?
Hmm. That only works if the downloads aren't already available for free via BitTorrent. It doesn't do much to convince anyone of anything if you make a worse product more expensive.
Then you get into the realm of legalities. It's not legal to download the "free" versions off BT. In which, my comment still holds true.
On the post: Studio Embracing P2P While Missing The Point
Savings cost? or attempt to push product?
But, do they pass the savings on to customers? Hell no.
Something I think was missed is that sometimes customers don't WANT their users to download everything. They WANT their users to buy the physical product over a software based download. I think this is one of those instances. In this instance, in order to "promote" their hardware DVD copies, they make the downloads the same price.
I've seen this tactic used on multiple occations. This isn't about savings, this is about demoting downloads while promoting their physical store copies
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