What this article fails to recognize, is that innovation occurs at every level of commerce. Producers are not the sole innovators. In fact the very existence of the commercial digital content offerings available today is proof that producers ultimately take their cues from their customers. Legal music download offerings are a response to the file sharing made possible by individuals exercising their fair use rights to move content from one storage medium to another.
It is the consumer driven innovation that is being threatened. Rep. Boucher is right to try defend consumer rights.
Businesses operate under the principle of "going concern," meaning you plan as though your business will continue indefintely. You can easily find cases in real estate where companies and organizations sign 99 year leases for buildings and facilities.
Frankly, the similarity to real estate goes even further. I hear the echoes of an old mantra ringing in my ears, "Invest in land, because they're not making it anymore." Well, with the structural constraints of the DNS schema, you could say they aren't making new Slashdot.org's or Amazon.com's anymore.
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What this article fails to recognize, is that innovation occurs at every level of commerce. Producers are not the sole innovators. In fact the very existence of the commercial digital content offerings available today is proof that producers ultimately take their cues from their customers. Legal music download offerings are a response to the file sharing made possible by individuals exercising their fair use rights to move content from one storage medium to another.
It is the consumer driven innovation that is being threatened. Rep. Boucher is right to try defend consumer rights.
Businesses operate under the principle of "going concern," meaning you plan as though your business will continue indefintely. You can easily find cases in real estate where companies and organizations sign 99 year leases for buildings and facilities.
Frankly, the similarity to real estate goes even further. I hear the echoes of an old mantra ringing in my ears, "Invest in land, because they're not making it anymore." Well, with the structural constraints of the DNS schema, you could say they aren't making new Slashdot.org's or Amazon.com's anymore.