On 6/14/07, Mr I Forrester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I've been thinking about products and services like this for a while,
and want to ponder this question to the backstage community...
We've been talking about how DRM doesn't work, etc in other posts. Well
lets just say for this thread that DRM doesn't work and it just turns
consumers into against the content holder.
...What happens next?
Creating an artificial scarcity of bits and charging for them is just
a round about way of charging for a genuinely scarce resource: the
time and effort of creators. Because the scarce bits model no longer
works, creators will have to charge differently:
- More directly, e.g. I will play may guitar and sing if you pay at the door
- Less directly, e.g. I will tell people to buy your perfume if you pay me
I don't think the BBC has these problems. It knows exactly where it's
next 3,000 million pounds is coming from, and by extension, the guy
who sticks the sink plungers on the front of Daleks knows he will be
compensated for his work.
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