The Many Battle Fronts of Content Owners

museumpeace writes "This community constantly chews on stories like the first sale doctrine and the endless maneuvering of RIAA, MPAA, follies of DMCA and DRM in general. I think of each of those stories as like trying to make sense of a particular earthquake. In the Huffington Post, blogger Jonathan Handel succinctly lays out six tectonic market and technology forces that provide a map for all of this. Sample his point #5, the media is the money: 'Fifth is market forces in the technology industry. Computers, web services, and consumer electronic devices are more valuable when more content is available. In turn, these products make content more usable by providing new distribution channels. Traditional media companies are slow to adopt these new technologies, for fear of cannibalizing revenue...'"

Comments

Totally offtopic

[esocid]

But I loved that huge headline on the article: "Vanilla Ice Arrested."

Re:Totally offtopic

[Eponymous Crowbar]

Serving notice to all the haters who said he couldn't even get arrested.... that's how he rolls!

Re:What?

[carps]

"One game studio owner once said that their games have to compete with everything else a person could do, including sex. So their games have to be better than sex."

Couldn't they try to popularize gaming among individuals for whom sexual partnership is not an immediate entertainment alternative?

Sometimes in business the most effective strategies are not the obvious ones!