I think there are plenty of ways to get people to pay. Patronage, donations, subscriptions with special content (ie: first access to new videos, real time coverage etc), partnerships with other companies to get cuts in sales, product endorsement (ie: review it and make it available with a cut to the publication), offer full documentaries and content on streaming platforms as well etc etc etc.
It sure is easier to go after the big targets but it's a losing strategy in the long turn. Hollywood turned Netflix into one hell of a direct competitor by making it harder to license their stuff. Do news outfits want Google/Facebook to enter their damn business and screw them too instead of working to extract the best of the opportunities?
Seems he skipped elementary school. Mathematic laws aren't optional, you can't decide not to follow them. Even in Soviet Russia mathematics rule you. Of course being a country that tries to kill you at every corner mathematics can be somewhat deadlier there.
Knowing this in advance you can always create some disposable account and register in your phone with a few dozen pics just to pretend it's being used. Of course it would be better if these megalomaniacs simply respected privacy and freedom and did their jobs instead of using the broad sweep but absent that you can always fool them. It's not like the people working at these schemes are very smart in the first place.
And I keep remembering that the cable tvs had all the leverage to be riding the wave well before Netflix would be able to become a thing if they were focused in providing better services instead of gouging consumers pockets and protecting their cash cows. Sadly they probably won't all go Kodak.
But that's precisely who is the enemy. Anybody who disagrees with the system. And Americans seem to have an annoying feeling for that pesky freedom of speech.
It would be interesting if people decided it isn't worth the hassle and actually stopped going to the US and spending their money there. Oh wait, it is already happening.
Sadly I have relatives there so I might need to go every once in a while. I'm preparing the disposable phones.
At some point it will start biting themselves in the ass. They love to create pop stars. It will be fun to watch when other actors come after them for parts of the songs looking too similar. Sadly, culture will have already paid the price for the copyright idiocy.
These kinds of breaches will keep happening unless we hold the ones that should be protecting the data liable and impose fines. I also want an unicorn.
I wonder where did I say M$ should be the one to save us.
Have you ever played that Monopoly board game? Everybody starts equal with the same amount of money and whatever. What happens every single game given enough time? Somebody dominates and crushes the rest.
The game was created exactly to show that the complete lack of regulations inevitably leads to abuse. Simple economics. So you absolutely NEED regulations. They are not the problem itself. The problem is how they are delivered.
Currently we have a broken telecommunications legal framework that empowers monopolies and screws new competition. That's precisely what Google Fiber has been showing. And what M$ can show regarding less covered/desirable areas. The solution isn't to remove all regulation but to produce a healthy regulatory environment that fosters competition instead of hampering it.
Let's consider it is a $540 billion company behind the thing so while other could make deployment harder it has real chances of becoming reality somewhere (think Google Fiber) and thus delivering another strong point to be used against the status quo. I hope they succeed - unless of course they are going the Facebook route like it did in India then it should fail.
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It sure is easier to go after the big targets but it's a losing strategy in the long turn. Hollywood turned Netflix into one hell of a direct competitor by making it harder to license their stuff. Do news outfits want Google/Facebook to enter their damn business and screw them too instead of working to extract the best of the opportunities?
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Seems he skipped elementary school. Mathematic laws aren't optional, you can't decide not to follow them. Even in Soviet Russia mathematics rule you. Of course being a country that tries to kill you at every corner mathematics can be somewhat deadlier there.
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It's fun to watch you in denial after you've been properly smacked.
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It seems they are collectively in one of these cases where the person gets a permanent trip then.
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Sadly I have relatives there so I might need to go every once in a while. I'm preparing the disposable phones.
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Let the chaos ensue.
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Have I mentioned you are an idiot?
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If they did their job more competently our lives would be hell in airports. I'm with the reader above, if they didn't exist we'd be much better.
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Have you ever played that Monopoly board game? Everybody starts equal with the same amount of money and whatever. What happens every single game given enough time? Somebody dominates and crushes the rest.
The game was created exactly to show that the complete lack of regulations inevitably leads to abuse. Simple economics. So you absolutely NEED regulations. They are not the problem itself. The problem is how they are delivered.
Currently we have a broken telecommunications legal framework that empowers monopolies and screws new competition. That's precisely what Google Fiber has been showing. And what M$ can show regarding less covered/desirable areas. The solution isn't to remove all regulation but to produce a healthy regulatory environment that fosters competition instead of hampering it.
Your "regulation is bad" trope is getting tired.
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