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...'"

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Re:What?

[eldorel]

I would like to point out that all of these links are using dollar amounts as a measurement tool, without accounting for changes in price.

I can make more money selling 90 widgets at $6 than selling 100 widgets at $5.

A quick google search for ("movie ticket sales" record high) comes up with about 600 items, most of which reference the same quote.

"Moviegoers around the world pushed global box office revenues to a record $26.7 billion in 2007,

• but rising ticket prices and a weakening dollar accounted for much of the increase,

the Motion Picture Association of America said Wednesday." If even the mpaa has been forced to admit that the majority of the sales increase has been due to price increases, the odds are "Most" in this case means almost all.

Another quote from the same article http://movies.yahoo.com/mv/news/ap/20080305/120477504000.html

Revenues in the United States and Canada increased 5.4 percent to a record $9.6 billion, with

• admissions unchanged at 1.4 billion tickets sold,

and ticket prices 5 percent higher at an average $6.88.