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Apple to Offer Monthly iTunes TV Subscriptions
sg3000 writes "Fans of The Daily Show and The Colbert Report, rejoice! Reuters is reporting that Apple will provide monthly subscriptions to two of Comedy Central's most popular shows. One question, as TV shows become available for sale on the Internet, will this make it harder to share clips online, such as through Google Video? In your answer, ignore facts. Just go with what feels true."
"this is not to be confused with BS "subscription" services which take away what you already have when you stop paying."
Now if I could figure out how to stop myself from paying for WoW. There shsould be a clinic for this.
I dunno, those chicks kinda freak me out. But hey, whatever floats your boat.
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Heh. Poke around at tvtorrents.com
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First off, mods, grow up. If someone says something you don't like, don't mod it flamebait. Labeling stuff you disagree with as flamebait/troll makes using the slashdot mod system close to worthless when you do stupid crap like that.
Second, parent is utterly wrong, especially in this instance. The market can have artificially high prices. The market can have artificially high prices when there exists a monopoly. The music companies are not the monopoly due to their size. They are a monopoly because the government has literally given them a government enforced monopoly using copyright.
Now, giving a company a monopoly is not always a bad thing. It lets companies blow more money on developing something then they normally would be willing to. Pharmaceuticals are a good example of when a monopoly isn't such a bad idea. Giving pharmaceuticals a few years of a monopoly on a drug they develop after blowing hundreds of millions (or even billions!) of dollars not only in the R&D but appeasing government regulations is fair. Without this government enforced monopoly drug companies would be significantly wearier about blowing a few hundred million dollars to bring a drug to market, only to have the competition promptly copy it and sell it without having to recoup all the money spent in R&D.
Music is a different beast. If the music production in the US drops, we will be sad perhaps, but it won't be the end of the world. People won't die. Despite this, the music industry gets a lifetime+ monopoly on all songs produced! This is an absolutely insane state of affairs and it leads to a dramatically distorted market. The "price" set by music companies is price set by a company that knows it has a lifetime monopoly. Take the governments hand out of this mess and I will agree that the market prices are what they should be. Until that time though, the market prices are clearly being distorted due to the fact that there exists a government enforced monopoly.