yeah but this will only work for /big/ companies or SMALL ones. you can only do this if you either have an established /FAN/ base or you dont. more FUD from masnicks koolaid factory of Big Google.
Too bad a useful response was posted 5 minutes after you, and the 'troll' tag came almost an hour later. Seems like about the opposite of what you said to me.
Re: No, it's still basically producers of content versus grifters.
Yeah, that damn Facebook and their stealing from the legacy "I wonder what my friend Jane is doing these days" industry! That damn Mozilla and their stealing from the oh so successful paid web browser industry! That damn Twitter and their stealing from the "I wonder what some random celebrity is thinking" industry!
i. Example:
• U.S. Dollar List Price = $0.99.
• We aren't matching a free promotion on another sales channel.
• Your Royalty per sale to a customer in any location from Amazon.com is:
0.35 x $0.99 = $0.35
Royalty Rate x List Price = Royalty
ii. Example:
• Same as above but we're matching a free promotion on another sales channel.
• Your Royalty is zero.
In this case, Amazon (thought it) was matching a free promotion on another sales channel.
I'm assuming some odd number of them are available to buy but not to rent (or vice versa), and they're counting each of those availabilities separately.
It reminded me of some speaker we had back when I was in high school who opened with something like "You know, everyone always tells you to seize the day, but I say just seize the building and the day will probably take care of itself."
This reminds me of a text/image based game I played on the web back in high school. I'd pull it up on the computers between class and some of the club meetings after school, and most of the game was fine, but I couldn't go to the page where you make cocktails. Not because of alcohol-related content, though... "Keyword found: cock".
But what if someone has the latest piece of bukkake porn saved on their widescreen macbook? Maybe we should also ban viewing video files on the train, because they might be porn. After all, pervs enjoying their porn is many times worse than a person who can't happen to watch their favorite movie on a long, boring train ride, right?
Why not just make people agree to "I will not watch porn on this train" statements when they connect? Does away with nasty filtering things like this and should save them from most lawsuits.
Re: Re: Re: Re: Huh??!! -- @Mike and "We sell tickets to theaters, not movies."
You're living in the past the quote is from. Theaters NOW compete with various experiences at home.
Right, they compete with home experiences... which means that now it's even less about the content and more about the seats/experience. It used to be that if you wanted to see a movie, you had to go to the theater. Now the same content is available all sorts of ways, so they have to focus on other things to make people want to see it with them instead of at home.
In the past 2 years, my consumption of recorded music and movies has risen sharply, while recorded music and movie sales to me have declined. I might even go so far as to say that my consumption is "at an all time high right now" personally.
Yes, I hear you shouting over there. "Damn, dirty pirate! Stop stealing millions from our beloved content producers!"
But wait... what's that? I don't pirate at all? How can that be possible?
You see, I subscribe to Netflix and Microsoft's Zune Pass. So for movies I'm paying $8 a month, where before Netflix I would have had to pay that much to watch 1 or 2 movies per month instead of one every other night or so. For music, I pay $15 a month, which gets me 10 DRM-free mp3s per month plus as many DRMed files as I can get my grubby little paws on, which I can play on either my computer or my Zune. I know I listen to at least 15 new songs per month, so again there's higher consumption with less purchasing.
The marketplace is changing. So no, it is not clear that piracy has hurt the industry because of the crazy number of variables to account for. And that's without even starting to get into the whole argument of whether economic movement with no net change matters or not...
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In this case, Amazon (thought it) was matching a free promotion on another sales channel.
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Of course, they could also just be bad at maths.
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Why not just make people agree to "I will not watch porn on this train" statements when they connect? Does away with nasty filtering things like this and should save them from most lawsuits.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Huh??!! -- @Mike and "We sell tickets to theaters, not movies."
Right, they compete with home experiences... which means that now it's even less about the content and more about the seats/experience. It used to be that if you wanted to see a movie, you had to go to the theater. Now the same content is available all sorts of ways, so they have to focus on other things to make people want to see it with them instead of at home.
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Yes, I hear you shouting over there. "Damn, dirty pirate! Stop stealing millions from our beloved content producers!"
But wait... what's that? I don't pirate at all? How can that be possible?
You see, I subscribe to Netflix and Microsoft's Zune Pass. So for movies I'm paying $8 a month, where before Netflix I would have had to pay that much to watch 1 or 2 movies per month instead of one every other night or so. For music, I pay $15 a month, which gets me 10 DRM-free mp3s per month plus as many DRMed files as I can get my grubby little paws on, which I can play on either my computer or my Zune. I know I listen to at least 15 new songs per month, so again there's higher consumption with less purchasing.
The marketplace is changing. So no, it is not clear that piracy has hurt the industry because of the crazy number of variables to account for. And that's without even starting to get into the whole argument of whether economic movement with no net change matters or not...
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And authors don't get any money directly from the used book market, but I don't see any big push to try to get rid of used book stores.
Developers don't need to participate in the secondary market, they can just stop actively trying to destroy it.
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