What if you go camping somewhere without coverage? The entire world isn't covered with data coverage. What if you travel overseas? Would you pay the insane roaming data rates to stream your music?
I had Canadian Netflix for a few months. We watched all of the old stuff that we wanted to catch up on, then ran out of programs. There isn't anything new on the service (or at least there wasn't at the time) so we cancelled the service.
When you cancel Netflix asks you to take a survey, they want to know where you will get your movie and TV shows from now, pirating is an option. I picked that hoping it would be shared with the industry exec's, in truth I couldn't even be bothered to waste the bandwidth downloading that crap.
I've just stopped consuming what Hollywood has to offer completely instead. THAT is a lost sale in my book.
I can't even remember the last *new* movie that I've watched. The crap getting put out these days is so horrible I couldn't even be bothered to download it.
The Kindle and Steam have been getting my money lately.
I already pay for my bandwidth every month, last time I checked I wasn't getting my internet for free. Seems like I'm already paying for the cost of my bandwidth, why do I suddenly need to pay more?
Ah, electricity - the comparison doesn't work. You see utilities are not an infinite good like bandwidth is. Electricity (all utilities in fact) have a finite supply, once someone stops making more electricity it is gone. People can accept paying for something like that. Bandwidth is more like a highway (an information highway?...), once the highway is built it is built, you can just keep on driving on it. Trying to classify bandwidth as a utility just doesn't work, they aren't the same thing.
A better question is why would this be illegal at all?! I don't get why the rights holders are so against making money. Is it because they don't think its enough money? Or they just hate the idea of people getting movies any other way but through discs?
Who cares? The movie must suck or the content of the movie doesn't interest anyone. How is that a consumer problem? Just because Hollywood puts out a movie doesn't mean it should be guaranteed to make a profit.
How in the hell does an animated movie cost $180 million anyway?!
Funny thing is the guy could still play the game. You don't HAVE to register to play the game, when you register you get access to a couple pieces of DLC for the game.
Really EA took away his access to the free DLC, not his access to the entire game.
Not that I agree with what they did, I just haven't seen anyone else mention that.
Can't you just get one of those USB turntables (here's a couple reviews) and rip your own vinyl tracks to MP3? Seems like you'd still get the same sound as it originated from vinyl in the first place...
Steam's TOS state you cannot sell a Steam account. Digital distribution seems to signal the end of the resale market.
If Steam was really smart they'd open a resellers market inside the Steam store. Allow, hell facilitate, users ability to resell digital games would make Steam that much more popular. Pay users in some sort of Steam credits or something and it would just get plugged back into Steam.
Not being able to lend or resell games from Steam is my #1 pet peeve about the service, otherwise it's great.
Where it goes overboard is that not only did the company ban him from the forums, but it also blocked him from activating a single-player game that he had purchased, BioWare.
Should actually read, Where it goes overboard is that not only did the company ban him from the forums, but it also blocked him from activating a single-player game that he had purchased, Dragon Age II.
Bioware is the developer, Dragon Age II is the game.
I had this concern with a Kindle as well, not actually owning the book was a huge turn off.
So I did a little research, downloaded "Kindle for PC" and a handy little script called "Skindle", suddenly the DRM on the books doesn't concern me. Any book I've purchased is stored safely on my PC, DRM free.
I know that when I see a $0.99 ebook in the Kindle store I don't think twice about buying it. Anything above $4.99 I usually think long and hard about, the wife is the same way.
$0.99 is a no brainer, I'd be surprised if more people didn't feel the same way.
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Suddenly the money that was good enough for the last 10 years doesn't cut it anymore? Strange.
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Ipad app - most likely requires login information and encrypted data.
Wi-fi - an internet connection. If you jump on someone else's wifi you can use whatever program you want using their IP (P2P, bittorrent, etc).
Can you really not see the difference?
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Nice theory but no where close to reality.
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When you cancel Netflix asks you to take a survey, they want to know where you will get your movie and TV shows from now, pirating is an option. I picked that hoping it would be shared with the industry exec's, in truth I couldn't even be bothered to waste the bandwidth downloading that crap.
I've just stopped consuming what Hollywood has to offer completely instead. THAT is a lost sale in my book.
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The Kindle and Steam have been getting my money lately.
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Ah, electricity - the comparison doesn't work. You see utilities are not an infinite good like bandwidth is. Electricity (all utilities in fact) have a finite supply, once someone stops making more electricity it is gone. People can accept paying for something like that. Bandwidth is more like a highway (an information highway?...), once the highway is built it is built, you can just keep on driving on it. Trying to classify bandwidth as a utility just doesn't work, they aren't the same thing.
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How in the hell does an animated movie cost $180 million anyway?!
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Really EA took away his access to the free DLC, not his access to the entire game.
Not that I agree with what they did, I just haven't seen anyone else mention that.
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If Steam was really smart they'd open a resellers market inside the Steam store. Allow, hell facilitate, users ability to resell digital games would make Steam that much more popular. Pay users in some sort of Steam credits or something and it would just get plugged back into Steam.
Not being able to lend or resell games from Steam is my #1 pet peeve about the service, otherwise it's great.
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Dragon Age II
Should actually read, Where it goes overboard is that not only did the company ban him from the forums, but it also blocked him from activating a single-player game that he had purchased, Dragon Age II.
Bioware is the developer, Dragon Age II is the game.
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So I did a little research, downloaded "Kindle for PC" and a handy little script called "Skindle", suddenly the DRM on the books doesn't concern me. Any book I've purchased is stored safely on my PC, DRM free.
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$0.99 is a no brainer, I'd be surprised if more people didn't feel the same way.
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