I've been reading everyone's views on pricing and now feel I must jump in with
another perspective. I'm not a librarian. I'm in distance education and go to
vendors for streaming rights only for use in our online degree programs. I am
not serving the University population, just a small portion
So long as libraries get no additional rights for paying more for the videos, I
expect they will most often opt for the least expensive options for acquiring
videos. If distributors sold rights to stream videos for online course and
other uses that would benefit libraries and education, then
Athena
I think that is EXACTLY what distributors are trying to do, though this is
limited to distributors of of mostly non fiction, independent , classic and
some foreign films obviously not going to happen with studios.
I think most distributors ( everyone from Icarus to Zeitgeist) are eager to
There was an NPR interview with one of the people involved and it was very,
very funny. When asked what happens after six strikes and warnings, the
person replied that, well, nothing happens. So the idea is if you are more
flagrant, they will have no option but to stop taunting you.
Best regards,
Actually it varies by ISP. The bigger ones say they will either terminate
your service or give you a slower speed but it remains to be seen if they
will actually do that.
On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 1:55 PM, Dennis Doros milefi...@gmail.com wrote:
There was an NPR interview with one of the people
