"Why the hell is anyone eating pizza from a restaurant chain?"
Where I live (bit north of Boston) there are many, many mom & pop pizza places. Sadly they all SUCK so bad that Little Caesars would be a vastly superior option (there was one by my house but it closed about 10 years ago).
Pretty much every pizza shop in MA serves greek style pizza which I despise. NY or Chicago style pizzas do not exist.
If you think of the music industry as the music copying industry then he's right, the internet is the biggest threat since the atomic bomb. Both eliminate the need for the industry by eliminating demand.
Major labels have classically made money by getting artists to sell them their proverbial souls in that initial contract and then making money copying the content. They provided useful services at the cost of taking the bulk of the fees associated with making the copy.
I have noticed the trend that almost all of the musicians that bemoan the death of the music copying industry are the ones who would have made it to super stardom where they would be in line for a much higher percentage of the residuals, thus they stand to lose more than many other artists when the fee to copy music drops to $0.
Close but not quite. The profit is in stealing the profits from others.
With the patent system as it is it makes more sense for the patent holder to NOT bring the patent to market, but to instead wait for others to so, wait a few years, then sue their asses off.
The only incentive patents are providing here are applications to law school...
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Where I live (bit north of Boston) there are many, many mom & pop pizza places. Sadly they all SUCK so bad that Little Caesars would be a vastly superior option (there was one by my house but it closed about 10 years ago).
Pretty much every pizza shop in MA serves greek style pizza which I despise. NY or Chicago style pizzas do not exist.
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In a bizzarro way he's right
Major labels have classically made money by getting artists to sell them their proverbial souls in that initial contract and then making money copying the content. They provided useful services at the cost of taking the bulk of the fees associated with making the copy.
I have noticed the trend that almost all of the musicians that bemoan the death of the music copying industry are the ones who would have made it to super stardom where they would be in line for a much higher percentage of the residuals, thus they stand to lose more than many other artists when the fee to copy music drops to $0.
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With the patent system as it is it makes more sense for the patent holder to NOT bring the patent to market, but to instead wait for others to so, wait a few years, then sue their asses off.
The only incentive patents are providing here are applications to law school...
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