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Harry Potter and the Entertainment Industry
VoidEngineer writes "In a surprisingly insightful article entitled Harry Crushes the Hulk, Frank Rich discusses how "Harry Potter and the Order of the Pheonix" beat out "The Hulk" and goes on to offer some insightfull and interesting comments on demographics, digital media piracy, file sharing and p2p networks, the iTunes store, and more... His conclusion? "[Consumers] may well be willing to pay for their entertainment -- if the quality is guaranteed and the price is fair."
Another Harry-themed article? My God! He's infecting us all! Run!
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Clearly consumers are more willing to pay if you threaten and sue them. Duh.
Ahhh, I remember school, such happy days.
Spell much?
In a surprisingly insightfull article...
Sad: Someone actually spelled insightful as "insightfull."
Worse: The so-called "editors" don't even bother to correct this idiocy.
Must be nice to draw a paycheck for clicking "ACCEPT" or "REJECT" a few times a day.
"I don't have an Australian Drivers licence, and my local video store requires *australian* photo ID."
I have no idea what the government options are in Australia, but here in the U.S., if you don't have a drivers license, you can get a government ID card. (California information)
One of the main reasons for getting an ID card is exactly the reason that you stated above -- so you can do business with stores/companies that require a valid government ID. (In the U.S., you can also use a military ID instead of a drivers license.) Perhaps Australia has something similar...
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Is it as good as they say? ;-)
;)
Yeah, spend a few mins to walk to your local libary, and borrow the first
I doubt they would be so popular without the involment of the media.
It would be intresting to take a truely deadful book and hype it
Wow, I should not post when knackered.
His conclusion? "[Consumers] may well be willing to pay for their entertainment -- if the quality is guaranteed and the price is fair."
I just relised I prefer quality over quantity, having gone to the cinema to see 8 crap films in the last 3 weeks.
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...entitled Harry Crushes the Hulk...
Pah, The Hulk would kick Harry Potter's ass.
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"I'm so fucking postmodern because I read a CHILDRENS BOOK!!!!"
Die you fucking closet paedophiles.
Is this about the browser or about the database?
The Bulk had popups, windows opening all over the place, extremely annoying.
Why would some idiot put that in a movie?
Mostly the anim is good, the story line is less than expected.
I'd go on a Vegan diet but the delivery time from Vega is too long. --brownkitty
It's very sad when young people are entertained by stories that contain magic elements. As if it was not enough that most young people are "illeterate" to basic science, now they are being bombarded my "magic" stuff.
Are we going back to the middle age ? Are the majority of the population going to be ignorant of the basic facts of science ?
More and more people are into "religions"...worrying fact for my generation that grew up on Star Trek!!!