Suppliers that give good reasons to want to buy will inevitably find the majority of the decisions at stage 4 will be "yes."
I speak from personal experience in this. I have two accounts on an ebook site run by a major publisher. One of them has free access to literally everything they publish, with unlimited download privileges. The other one is under an assumed ID with no special privileges.
Anybody care to guess why that second account exists? Hint: the word "insist" is in the reason.
Just like every other content provider, they hit, and bounced, from a fundamental limit: how much time and attention people have. If you're already getting your news in real time, and your "I'm looking for (x)" from eBay or Craigslist, the newspapers pretty much are toast.
One thing they've also done that damaged them is how poorly most of them handle commenting, which is the key to building a community. Everybody wants to get your email address/ID to sell. Not a bad idea, but when you visit eight or nine different news sites in a day, across maybe two or three states in different time zones and each one wants the same information typed in to comment, over and over, it gets old in a hurry. Poor implementations of OpenID aren't a big help with this, nor any other "capture the user" schemes.
And I've got a "go to sleep" channel over the net with relaxing new age stuff and a "wake up" channel that blasts me out of bed in the morning and an "at work" channel that keeps me going all day and a "lullaby" channel for the kids and a romance channel for an evening with my wife and a "bow-chicka-bow-bow" channel for ...
GOD BLESS AND KEEP THE RIAA!!!!!
(I can't believe I wrote the above with a straight face.)
That's really what the response of "content and licensing" amounts to. Any decision on how stupid such an attitude makes the company look, how many people it will influence toward helping people justify "taking without paying," since "they're all like that," are simply not HER department.
Each little department of a large company has its own concerns. The overall impact of a lot of little bad decisions is enormous and mostly negative, but actually keeping such stupidity under rein? That's somebody else's job, and the big bosses are too busy lobbying Washington for more special legal privilege to keep an eye on the day to day deterioration of the company.
Fought with what? A lady who is (somewhat) making a living in this economy versus a big university with lawyers coming out of their ears and a multimillion-dollar football program?
Yes. Everybody loves a David vs. Goliath story. However, David with his sling versus "Nuke him from orbit."? Good luck to David.
It's good that the priests of the local football religion figured out that creating martyrs might just NOT be the best idea anybody's ever had.
This is the congress where La Pelosi said, publicly, "We'll find out what's in the bill after we pass it."
Are there really people who believe congressmen won't vote down a bill they've clearly been told to vote for by the people who are tapping their communications and can ruin their lives with a single leak.
Mark my words, there are certainly congressmen who know the capabilities are already being abused because they've been subjected to quiet little chats with people calling themselves "constitutents."
Does anybody *really* believe the USTR works for the United States?
It's crystal clear that they work for the MPAA, the RIAA, and just about every other major business entity that has a vested interest in destroying the threat freedom of communication poses to their pet business models.
Tell me all about it. "The Man from Earth" was a small-budget picture that had good story, good acting and I bought a copy plus several others as gifts for friends. And the original movie version of "Tuck Everlasting" beats out the sucky Disney remake six days out of the week and twice on Sunday.
Namely, the effort will be ignored as "too small and too limited" until the dinosaurs figure out their eggs are being devoured. Then they'll panic and try to buy the government into shutting it down.
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There is NO way to "make it right."
They are not repenting sinners, they're criminals sorry they got caught.
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Heh. Gotta love the irony of the biter bit.
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Re: Dear MAFIAA: GO HOME. YOU'RE THROUGH.
They've already lost. Making your customers hate your guts is a really lousy business model.
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To Paraphrase Sun Tzu
Remember this item in an earlier post on this blog?
4. DO I WANT TO PAY FOR IT? (YES/NO)
Suppliers that give good reasons to want to buy will inevitably find the majority of the decisions at stage 4 will be "yes."
I speak from personal experience in this. I have two accounts on an ebook site run by a major publisher. One of them has free access to literally everything they publish, with unlimited download privileges. The other one is under an assumed ID with no special privileges.
Anybody care to guess why that second account exists? Hint: the word "insist" is in the reason.
On the post: Newspaper Ad Revenue Fell Off Quite A Cliff: Now On Par With 1950 Revenue
Re: I miss them
I was visiting my son and daughter-in-law last night when I
asked if I could borrow a newspaper.
"This is the 21st century, old man," he said. "We don't
waste money on newspapers. Here, you can borrow my iPad."
I can tell you, that friggin' fly never knew what hit it ...
On the post: Newspaper Ad Revenue Fell Off Quite A Cliff: Now On Par With 1950 Revenue
Newspapers actually hit a wall.
One thing they've also done that damaged them is how poorly most of them handle commenting, which is the key to building a community. Everybody wants to get your email address/ID to sell. Not a bad idea, but when you visit eight or nine different news sites in a day, across maybe two or three states in different time zones and each one wants the same information typed in to comment, over and over, it gets old in a hurry. Poor implementations of OpenID aren't a big help with this, nor any other "capture the user" schemes.
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It may be her publisher, *claiming* her approval.
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Re: Re: 2012: How Much Music Is In Your Collection?
On the post: If The RIAA Was Innovative: An Alternate Universe Timeline
2012: How Much Music Is In Your Collection?
And I've got a "go to sleep" channel over the net with relaxing new age stuff and a "wake up" channel that blasts me out of bed in the morning and an "at work" channel that keeps me going all day and a "lullaby" channel for the kids and a romance channel for an evening with my wife and a "bow-chicka-bow-bow" channel for ...
GOD BLESS AND KEEP THE RIAA!!!!!
(I can't believe I wrote the above with a straight face.)
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"I am only following orders."
Each little department of a large company has its own concerns. The overall impact of a lot of little bad decisions is enormous and mostly negative, but actually keeping such stupidity under rein? That's somebody else's job, and the big bosses are too busy lobbying Washington for more special legal privilege to keep an eye on the day to day deterioration of the company.
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Re: Re: Crimson Tide vs. Tsunami of Anger
Yes. Everybody loves a David vs. Goliath story. However, David with his sling versus "Nuke him from orbit."? Good luck to David.
It's good that the priests of the local football religion figured out that creating martyrs might just NOT be the best idea anybody's ever had.
On the post: U Of Alabama Wants To Have Its Cake And Sue You Too
Crimson Tide vs. Tsunami of Anger
http://www.caketalkblog.com/2012/09/how-it-ended.html
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Re: Re: Bah. Innovation as defined around here is pretty meh
On the post: The Math Says HBO Shouldn't Go Direct, But They Left Innovation Out Of The Equation
Short Form
Answer: The math says wait.
Followup Question: What's that cloud of dust way down the road?
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Ahhh, how illusions continue to be believed.
Are there really people who believe congressmen won't vote down a bill they've clearly been told to vote for by the people who are tapping their communications and can ruin their lives with a single leak.
Mark my words, there are certainly congressmen who know the capabilities are already being abused because they've been subjected to quiet little chats with people calling themselves "constitutents."
On the post: Libraries Go Direct To Indie Authors, Rather Than Deal With Big Publisher Ebook Limits
Re: Great, but
Word will get around.
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Chutzpah?
On the post: Members Of Congress Demand USTR Open Up On TPP
Does anybody *really* believe the USTR works for the United States?
On the post: The Content Industry Keeps Penalizing The People Who Actually Pay
Re: Re: Well duh....
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There's a time limit on this.
cf. MPAA, RIAA, the Big Six book publishers...
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