Why can't they ever make this kind of stuff opt-in. If you want to be tracked, you register your phone at the front desk. Maybe they could offer all shoppers who register a small discount. All other phones are ignored by the system.
Why couldn't we treat music like we do cars. Car ownership doesn't official change until the deed changes hands. Digital content could be sold with a second file that is signed by a digital deed authority. It is also possible that the deed data could be tacked onto the last N bytes of the digital file. The digital content could be played, cut, mixed, or otherwise legally used without DRM. If you want to legally sell your collection, you transfer the deed through a digital deed authority to another user. The digital deed authority could take a few cents to a nickel per digital content in order to cover costs. The best part about this is that if you wanted to get your digital content in another physical format, you already paid for the license and businesses could just charge a conversion cost. For example, if you purchase a game on your computer, why should you have to pay the full retail cost to get it on the Xbox 360 when you already paid for a vast majority of the cost. I would much rather pay $5.00 to get my game on a different platform than $60.00.
and create a custom dialer app that switches the layout to a calculator's. It would be a lot easier than trying to find a calculator that switches the layout to a phone's.
The funny thing is Netflix turned a lot of pirates into legitimate customers. Some pirates I know dramatically dropped the amount of piracy they did after they bought a Netflix account. Stunts like this might actually reverse things.
Content creators need to realize that a lot of people are willing to pay. They just want the content when and how they want it. A smart content creator would be trying to nuture and shape services like Netflix and make a model that make both sides happy.
Also, I am so tired of running Netflix in a VM.
I did the reverse. I dropped the DVD plan. I never got around to mailing the things out and I don't want to have to guess what I will be in the mood for a few days ahead of time. I just wish they do a selection overhaul. They are running our of stuff that I am interested in watching. I would actually be willing to pay between $30 and $50 dollars a month but they would have to start releasing everything within a few months of it coming to DVD and never get rid of the content that they add. I would also want TV episodes to be added within a week of their original air dates. I haven't watch TV on TV in ages.
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Why can't they ever make this kind of stuff opt-in. If you want to be tracked, you register your phone at the front desk. Maybe they could offer all shoppers who register a small discount. All other phones are ignored by the system.
Except that lawyers, unlike guns, have a choice on the cases they accept.
Why couldn't we treat music like we do cars. Car ownership doesn't official change until the deed changes hands. Digital content could be sold with a second file that is signed by a digital deed authority. It is also possible that the deed data could be tacked onto the last N bytes of the digital file. The digital content could be played, cut, mixed, or otherwise legally used without DRM. If you want to legally sell your collection, you transfer the deed through a digital deed authority to another user. The digital deed authority could take a few cents to a nickel per digital content in order to cover costs. The best part about this is that if you wanted to get your digital content in another physical format, you already paid for the license and businesses could just charge a conversion cost. For example, if you purchase a game on your computer, why should you have to pay the full retail cost to get it on the Xbox 360 when you already paid for a vast majority of the cost. I would much rather pay $5.00 to get my game on a different platform than $60.00.
and create a custom dialer app that switches the layout to a calculator's. It would be a lot easier than trying to find a calculator that switches the layout to a phone's.
I didn't even know Netflix existed before streaming.
The funny thing is Netflix turned a lot of pirates into legitimate customers. Some pirates I know dramatically dropped the amount of piracy they did after they bought a Netflix account. Stunts like this might actually reverse things. Content creators need to realize that a lot of people are willing to pay. They just want the content when and how they want it. A smart content creator would be trying to nuture and shape services like Netflix and make a model that make both sides happy. Also, I am so tired of running Netflix in a VM.
I did the reverse. I dropped the DVD plan. I never got around to mailing the things out and I don't want to have to guess what I will be in the mood for a few days ahead of time. I just wish they do a selection overhaul. They are running our of stuff that I am interested in watching. I would actually be willing to pay between $30 and $50 dollars a month but they would have to start releasing everything within a few months of it coming to DVD and never get rid of the content that they add. I would also want TV episodes to be added within a week of their original air dates. I haven't watch TV on TV in ages.