"If you sell steak for $0.10 a pound, trust me, you will have consumer demand. But your business will die trying to support it."
Correct because the cost of making the steak, raising the cow, has a cost.
Making digital media, past the cost of production of the movie/song there is no cost. So my option is wait a few months, pay for the cost of CD media, shipping, and a hefty profit to the label, or, see it now, pay nothing for abit lower quality, and then wait for the cost to drop down lower to a price I can more handle to buy the physical media.
But YOU feel give me the following options means the labels will go out of business sooner...
Giving me a great quality digital good that I can watch now, for a smaller price (heck even for the same price) where there is no overhead cost to the label, or download a lower quality copy for free
Your numbers don't work. I bet they will SELL more digital copies on impulse buys alone than they would have sold with their current business model.
Your belief that everyone that downloads illegal torrents do it so they don't need to pay for it. I feel that thought process is flawed. I know many "free-tards" that do end up going out and buying that DVD when it comes out especially if they liked it. If they didn't like it that much, they wait for second hand or when the price is reduced. it costs much less to produce a digital good than a physical good.
because it costs less to produce digital media than physical media? You REALLY need that econ101 class. Or Business Management 101...either would be helpful to you
The nature of business is to change with your demographic, or are you saying they are a fly-by-night company trying to cash in before claiming bankruptcy?
I am a Business Major, I work in computers, your logic makes sense only to a lawyer who has no clue on reality.
I have worked for a company where I went into several ICE/DHS buildings to work on printers/computers and I have met many people in those offices, not a single one smiled. Just sayin...
"Morons currently don't know how to keep criticle systems off the internet so they can play MAFIA WARS but if they should someday get the know how to be smart, they might actually do it! THINK OF THE CHILDREN'S PUPPIES!!!!
Sony wants to make sure what you are watching is ok by them and considered by them, legal....they send out an update to the OS and now you can't view anything without putting in your access codes to prove you are who you are. DRM baby! yeah, they will bring me over to a smart TV when penguins move to hell and Pigs mate with flying monkeys while they come out of my butt...
Those individuals were plotting a torrorist plot to live a normal life! The FBI had to put a stop to it by showing them how to be suicide bombers, sadly they gave them real explosive vests that went off prematurely...
So with your logic, ISP's, Phone companies, companies that build roads, houses, buildings, guns, knives, axes, hammers, pesticides, video games, operating systems, etc should all be shut down because they have potential to be used for illegal means...Good luck with that because the ICE and DOJ and the rest of the government should be shut down as well because the money to spend on things like ICE and give to other countries and such can be used for illegal activities as well.
On the post: Danish Police Accidentally Censor Over 8,000 Sites As Child Porn... Including Facebook & Google
We still do it bigger...
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So yeah...hows that censorship thing working out for ya?
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On the post: Funny How Sensitive Hollywood Gets When You Threaten To Mess With Its 'Fundamental' Structure
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Correct because the cost of making the steak, raising the cow, has a cost.
Making digital media, past the cost of production of the movie/song there is no cost. So my option is wait a few months, pay for the cost of CD media, shipping, and a hefty profit to the label, or, see it now, pay nothing for abit lower quality, and then wait for the cost to drop down lower to a price I can more handle to buy the physical media.
But YOU feel give me the following options means the labels will go out of business sooner...
Giving me a great quality digital good that I can watch now, for a smaller price (heck even for the same price) where there is no overhead cost to the label, or download a lower quality copy for free
Your numbers don't work. I bet they will SELL more digital copies on impulse buys alone than they would have sold with their current business model.
Your belief that everyone that downloads illegal torrents do it so they don't need to pay for it. I feel that thought process is flawed. I know many "free-tards" that do end up going out and buying that DVD when it comes out especially if they liked it. If they didn't like it that much, they wait for second hand or when the price is reduced. it costs much less to produce a digital good than a physical good.
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I am a Business Major, I work in computers, your logic makes sense only to a lawyer who has no clue on reality.
On the post: AT&T's New Scheme To Double Charge For Data: Call It A 1-800 Number For Internet Content
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On the post: Guy Gets Bogus YouTube Copyright Claim... On Birds Singing In The Background
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On the post: Online Technology Entrepreneurship Class At Stanford Postponed... Because Of Copyright
So this one time...at band camp...
On the post: ICE Considered One Of The Worst Places To Work In The Federal Government
I can say in all honesty...
On the post: If You're Accused Of Trying To Scam Facebook Out Of 50%+ Of Its Equity, Probably Don't Have An Email Account Named GetZuck
Re: Compare to Righthaven
On the post: NSA: 'Anonymous Might One Day Hack Power Grids!' Anonymous: 'Huh?!?'
Let me try...
On the post: Techdirt Deemed Harmful To Minors In Germany
I found the reason...
On the post: Smart TVs: Not Such A Smart Idea
Lets think about this...
On the post: Canadian Universities Agree To Ridiculous Copyright Agreement That Says Emailing Hyperlinks Is Equal To Photocopying
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On the post: FBI Saves Us From Another Of Its Own Terrorist Plots
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Those individuals were plotting a torrorist plot to live a normal life! The FBI had to put a stop to it by showing them how to be suicide bombers, sadly they gave them real explosive vests that went off prematurely...
On the post: US Returns JotForm.com Domain; Still Refuses To Say What Happened
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Can you blame them for being busy?
(Ok, not something to joke about but they have been distracted with the shoot out yesterday in NY)
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