So, based on that, why not try to understand what happens when you have a lack of scarcity and how to profit from it, rather than fighting the obvious trend?
I so agree, that I'm forced to repeat myself, just for the pure hell of it.
In the past, the only way to get water was to buy it in bottle form. And then, wonder of wonders! INDOOR PLUMBING!
Now the bottled water providers are fighting to get a cut from the delivery of water through pipes.
Well, that's not the way it worked, historically.
Water, for all intents and purposes, in the US is basically free for the taking - yet the bottled water industry is a billion-dollar business.
That's because they (bottled water cos) were forced to compete for business using the "perceived value" of their goods.
By the same token, the recording industry should emphasize the "perceived value" of their products (original packaging and the pride of a legal purchase to name two) and, taking into account the relative hassle of downloading vs the convenience of buying a professionally packaged product, price all CDs appropriately. Say, $3.99 to $6.99US.
Is there any non-humorous television ad that anyone would want to see more than once?
Is it even possible to make an interesting, compelling ad for a product or service?
Without a hardware restriction in place to enforce ad-watching and without a dependable mechanism to estimate the number of ads watched, I just don't see ad-support of content providing levels of compensation commensurate with today's.
In other words, prepare for a future with a lot more YouTube quality entertainment.
I have to disagree. Of the half dozen or so sources I read daily, this is the only one that regularly reports the wacky antics of America's favrorite video-game lawyer.
According to what I've read, the Neuros OSD will be able to produce video from an analogue stream for any number of devices - that's just got to have some TV execs chewing their Rolaids.
Back in the bad old days, the phone company used to be able to prohibit you from attaching "non-approved" devices to the phone line - modems, extra phones, answering machines.
I wouldn't be surprised if the networks tried to revive this tactic by strong-arming the cable operators.
I laugh when I hear someone insist that the cellphone is the new PC and as such, the platform for the next round of wild growth in the tech sector.
What they're conveniently ignoring is the fact that, by and large, the PC was/is an open platform and its connection to the internet
is mostly unencumbered by any one (hardware, software, service provider) vendor's visions of fabulous profits.
It seems as if everyone in the
mobile space subconsciously thinks that he or she is going to engineer the next technology coup, a la Microsoft. That horse is so far out of the
barn, it's turned into a car.
Not really related, but there used to be a restaurant in Pittsburgh called Alexander Graham Bell's. Each table and all along the bar there were rotary-dial phones along with a map of the bar and the numbers of all the phones. You could call any of the other tables and just about anyone at the bar.
Install Firefox, install NoScript and Adblock and these things go away.
One thing to keep in mind, however with NoScript, the sites that you want to use JavaScript on will have to be individually enabled. In my case, it took about a half-dozen times of sitting in front of a web page, repeatedly clicking on the submit button before I remembered I needed to enable JavaScript for that site.
Personally, I only Adblock animated ads because I can't stand things moving when I'm trying to read.
On the post: A Lack Of Scarcity Has (Almost) Nothing To Do With Piracy
Can't Help Myself
I so agree, that I'm forced to repeat myself, just for the pure hell of it.
bottled... water
:)
MjM
On the post: The Economics Of Abundance Is Not A Moral Issue
Water, Not Whips
Now the bottled water providers are fighting to get a cut from the delivery of water through pipes.
Well, that's not the way it worked, historically.
Water, for all intents and purposes, in the US is basically free for the taking - yet the bottled water industry is a billion-dollar business.
That's because they (bottled water cos) were forced to compete for business using the "perceived value" of their goods.
By the same token, the recording industry should emphasize the "perceived value" of their products (original packaging and the pride of a legal purchase to name two) and, taking into account the relative hassle of downloading vs the convenience of buying a professionally packaged product, price all CDs appropriately. Say, $3.99 to $6.99US.
MjM
On the post: Startup Promises Cure For The Skipped Advertising Blues
Re: Man Laws
I don't want to see even one yeast-infection cure or erectile dysfunction treatment!
MjM
On the post: Startup Promises Cure For The Skipped Advertising Blues
That's Not Funny!
Is it even possible to make an interesting, compelling ad for a product or service?
Without a hardware restriction in place to enforce ad-watching and without a dependable mechanism to estimate the number of ads watched, I just don't see ad-support of content providing levels of compensation commensurate with today's.
In other words, prepare for a future with a lot more YouTube quality entertainment.
MjM
On the post: China Plays Innocent: It's Never Censored The Internet And Arrested Journos Have 'Legal Problems'
Phew!
On the post: You Can Buy Anything Online: Even An Election*
Cease-and-Desist
On the post: Security Researchers Cry Wolf On RFID Credit Cards
This Doesn't Happen Often
http://www.boingboing.net/2006/10/23/report_contactless_c.html
On the post: Without Copyright Extension, The Beatles Will Never Have Incentive To Write Another Song
That Should be a T-shirt
On the post: Turns Out Bully Isn't A Public Nuisance After All...
Re: Jack Thompson marketing executive
Keep 'em comin'.
On the post: Wal-Mart's MySpace Clone Gone, Missed By Nobody
Seriously
MjM
On the post: Where Did TiVoToGo Go?
This is Where it Went
On the post: Embed Your Own Headline Here
Sleeper
Look for Adobe to put the screws to people for using Flash now that it's becoming ubiquitous.
MjM
On the post: How Many New And Non-Obvious Software Ideas Are There?
Weapons of Mass Disincentive
Over at slashdot they've got a story about how China and the US are in an internet "Space Race". The Chinese aim to out-innovate the US.
With the Patent Office happily locking up innovation to the tune of 800 ideas a day, it seems like hardly a race-type event. More like a smackdown.
MjM
On the post: What A Concept: Encouraging The Community To Make Your Product Better
Western Electric
Back in the bad old days, the phone company used to be able to prohibit you from attaching "non-approved" devices to the phone line - modems, extra phones, answering machines.
I wouldn't be surprised if the networks tried to revive this tactic by strong-arming the cable operators.
MjM
On the post: Schwarzenegger Hacking Claims Crumbling Like A Bunch Of Girlie Men
Analogy, Shmanalogy
...Crumbling Like A Bunch Of Girlie Men
I think I would have used wilting or folding or wimping
Crumbling suggests visions of gingerbread men.
On the post: .mobi's Latest Plan To Help The Mobile Internet: Give Us More Cash, Please
The Next PC
It seems as if everyone in the mobile space subconsciously thinks that he or she is going to engineer the next technology coup, a la Microsoft. That horse is so far out of the barn, it's turned into a car.
MjM
On the post: Mobile Payments Miss The Mark; Picking Up Chicks Is The Ideal Application
Pittsburgh
MjM
On the post: Dvorak Turns His Grumpifier Ray On Mobile Operators
Fave Term of the Week
(Just saved this comment in the TV Ad story, D'oh!)
MjM
On the post: TV Advertising Auction Has Lots Of Interested Bidders, But Still No Sellers
Fave Term of the Week
Excellent!
MjM
On the post: Advertisers Thrilled About New Ways To Irritate Readers
Firefox + NoScript + Adblock
NoScript
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/722/
Adblock
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1 0/
Install Firefox, install NoScript and Adblock and these things go away.
One thing to keep in mind, however with NoScript, the sites that you want to use JavaScript on will have to be individually enabled. In my case, it took about a half-dozen times of sitting in front of a web page, repeatedly clicking on the submit button before I remembered I needed to enable JavaScript for that site.
Personally, I only Adblock animated ads because I can't stand things moving when I'm trying to read.
MjM
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