On Fri, 19 Mar 2010 14:06:10 +0000, d-...@hadrian-way.co.uk said: > If the big-content owners could recognise that their business model > is out-dated, out-moded and failing
But they never do. The entertainment industry are the people that opposed CDs because they would allow exact copies to be made, who wanted a tax on audio cassettes before that to cover their "losses" from home taping, and who wanted to ban video recorders before that. As Glyn Moody reports [1], the film industry reported that "global box office receipts reached an all time high of $29.9 billion, an increase of 7.6% over 2008 and almost 30% from 2005". But they are (obviously) suffering because they add, "Yet our industry faces the relentless challenge of the theft of its creative content, a challenge extracting an increasingly unbearable cost." It is apparently a more effective use of their marketing dollars to lobby politicians than to innovate. [1] http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2010/03/hollywoods-post-theatrical-problem-isnt.html -- Keith Edmunds +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Tiger Computing Ltd | Helping businesses make the most of Linux | | "The Linux Specialists" | http://www.tiger-computing.co.uk | +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Wed 2010-04-07 20:00 http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=2645413 Chat: http://www.mibbit.com/?server=irc.blitzed.org&channel=%23dorset List info: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dorset
