However, a campaign on the basis of "Even when you buy it, it's not yours" could push the button of a lot of people.
Or maybe a "what are they trying to hide" campaign to feed on a little public paranoia. If they don't want you to see it, it's obvious that they must be doing something devious and nasty, isn't it?;-)
As I understand the articles on this, the problems didn't automatically doom the mission to failure, but they did dramatically increase the chance of it. Rather than announce that they had (allegedly) screwed up, they kept their fingers crossed, hoping it would still turn out ok, until it became obvious that something had gone wrong.
It may be that bandwidths will increase dramatically (although I still think "speed of light" is pushing it), and it may be that everybody in the world suddenly gets net access (assuming there are still around 6 billion of us), but considering the rate that bandwidth speed increases in Europe and the cost of connecting, I still think it will be cheaper for me to buy the DVD even in 12 years time! (Assuming we're still actually using something as antiquated as DVDs!). It'll still be cheaper to get a DVD-writer and a set of unburned blank DVDs from somewhere in Asia. P.S. I have a 56K modem, and I _still_ can't download a 4 meg file in under 2 minutes from a most places!
"Not so on the Internet, where some obscure person sitting in a basement can throw up on the Internet a brand new motion picture, and with the click of a button have it go with the speed of light to 6 billion people around the world, instantaneously"
What net connection does this guy have?!? It takes me minutes just to download a large gif image!
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What is the illiteracy rate in the US these days anyway?
Or maybe a "what are they trying to hide" campaign to feed on a little public paranoia. If they don't want you to see it, it's obvious that they must be doing something devious and nasty, isn't it? ;-)
As I understand the articles on this, the problems didn't automatically doom the mission to failure, but they did dramatically increase the chance of it. Rather than announce that they had (allegedly) screwed up, they kept their fingers crossed, hoping it would still turn out ok, until it became obvious that something had gone wrong.
It may be that bandwidths will increase dramatically (although I still think "speed of light" is pushing it), and it may be that everybody in the world suddenly gets net access (assuming there are still around 6 billion of us), but considering the rate that bandwidth speed increases in Europe and the cost of connecting, I still think it will be cheaper for me to buy the DVD even in 12 years time! (Assuming we're still actually using something as antiquated as DVDs!). It'll still be cheaper to get a DVD-writer and a set of unburned blank DVDs from somewhere in Asia. P.S. I have a 56K modem, and I _still_ can't download a 4 meg file in under 2 minutes from a most places!
"Not so on the Internet, where some obscure person sitting in a basement can throw up on the Internet a brand new motion picture, and with the click of a button have it go with the speed of light to 6 billion people around the world, instantaneously"
What net connection does this guy have?!? It takes me minutes just to download a large gif image!