I think what you are missing is the assumption that watching the movie at home is the same as watching it at the theater. What the theater is selling is not the movie but the experience. While I do have a nice HDTV and a good surround sound system, I still enjoy watching movies at the theater because my system just can't recreate the awesome sound or the giant screen. That's why IMAX and other Mega Screen theaters are becoming so popular.
You are suffering from the same delusion that most of Hollywood has in assuming that the content is what's most important, but to your consumers the movie is not what's important. It's the experience associated with the movie.
The perfect example of this is movies like The Princess Bride or any of the Monty Python's. I love those movies, but I would never sit down and watch them by myself because while they are still funny they aren't nearly as enjoyable. However if I have a group of friends over and we sit down and watch it, it's more fun because you have people quoting the movie and cracking other jokes.
It all comes down to you overvaluing the content and undervaluing the experience.
The problem with your line of thought is that you still feel all the money should be made selling the content. That idea doesn't hold up in a digital world because the content is no longer scarce. Since the supply is infinite the price will naturally be pressured toward 0. What filmmakers need to learn is that they aren't selling the movie itself, they are selling the experience of watching the movie.
As someone who has AT&T I find those ads sad but hilarious. AT&T 3G coverage is rather pathetic and the 2G networks are so slow they are practically worthless.
Just because he lacks the ability to open the safe does not mean he is not in complete control of the safe. The safe is a physical object which he now controls.
The biggest annoyance in the removal of dedicated servers to me is in the difficulty of finding a good game. I now with CoD4 I have 3 servers that I know what games they play and the type of people that are usually there. I always go to those servers first. Without dedicated servers you never really know what you are going to get.
I think he is meaning the people that will still buy it are the ones that don't know the difference. I know I won't buy it if they don't allow dedicated servers because too many times I've seen the difference between dedicated and not and non dedicated sucks.
Frankly AT&T shouldn't be complaining that they only show 3G, because frankly they EVDO network is utterly useless. It may have better coverage but it's so pathetically slow you will go insane long before a single page loads.
Whether or not YouTUb is profitable isn't known. Yes the accepted idea is that they are a loss leader for Google, but don't be so sure. Google has never been up front about YouTube's profit and it wouldn't suprise me if they were actually quite profitable.
I use adblock, but I have gotten into the habit of turning it off on sites that I regular that I know depend on the ad revenue and also don't have obnoxious ads. Several sites, like Techdirt, have very basic ads that don't interfere with the content and aren't obnoxious, so I explicitly turn adblock off for these sites.
Mike why is the apple logo green in the picture? I mean it makes them look slightly more similar but if you use the silver Apple logo they look nothing alike. The only remote similarity I see is kinda the stem at the top, but that's only because there are only so many ways to draw the stem of an apple.
As someone who switched to Dvorak a few years ago, I can say it hasn't really made a difference in my typing speed. It has however completely eliminated my wrist pain after typing for long periods of time.
Actually I believe the reason wasn't that they were too fast it was that if you hit keys next to each other to quickly they would collide. Their solution was to design a keyboard that cause lots of alternation across the hands so keys next to each other weren't commonly hit one right after the other.
MLB's done this for a while. On MLB.com each team has their own reporter who follows with them all season. As a Cards fine it's Matthew Leach. It really is quite cool because he writes summaries and previews for everygame as well as keeps the fans updated about other things about the organization like trade rumors and minor leagues.
I can completely sympathize with that. The only thing about the Halo series that I ever got violent or angry over was the stupid cliffhanger ending to Halo 2. But having had a PC crash because of a virus infection after the first reboot after getting into to Windows I can definitely say that made me more violent then I've ever been.
I love the difference in what they are giving away and what you have to buy. It's great because they are giving away the basic song, but the extended versions are a collectors item. I bet it will work great because casual music fans probably won't really appreciate the solos and other extra stuff the band adds in the EP version, but big pumpkins fan will more likely love that stuff. It really shows a great balance between giving away the easy stuff but offering better items more targeted at real fans.
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You are suffering from the same delusion that most of Hollywood has in assuming that the content is what's most important, but to your consumers the movie is not what's important. It's the experience associated with the movie.
The perfect example of this is movies like The Princess Bride or any of the Monty Python's. I love those movies, but I would never sit down and watch them by myself because while they are still funny they aren't nearly as enjoyable. However if I have a group of friends over and we sit down and watch it, it's more fun because you have people quoting the movie and cracking other jokes.
It all comes down to you overvaluing the content and undervaluing the experience.
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Sue them and I will gladly contribute to help pay any legal costs. If it puts the record labels a trouble spot then it will be well worth the money.
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