Disney has a history of propaganda. In the past, it's been war propaganda in the case of World War II. Now, in the growing war between large corporations and the consumers just out for a fair deal, Disney has chosen a side. How can they justify it? Here's how old Walt justified two anti-Nazi films:
As for "DER FUEHRER'S FACE," we feel that a public character such as Donald Duck, writhing rebelliously in the clutches of the Nazis, will bring the situation home to every man, woman and child in this country as plainly as though they were witnessing the discomfiture of their own grandmothers. For Donald belongs to them like a member of their own family, and we guarantee they will end up hating Hitler twenty times more than if they had gone through the same ordeal with some curlyhaired hero who is, after all, merely another movie actor
Replace Hitler with copyright law breakers. Wouldn't it be nice if they stuck to REAL ISSUES?
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How does this work? That's easy. There is a famous research company which sells it's reports on a subscription basis (for big, big bucks) and delivers primarily via the web these days. And they're wildly successful (as in "in the black") doing this.
The thing that you're missing is that slashdot's subscription service may also have subscriber-only content. Which is important. And makes it much more what that other company does.
Simply put, it is in the best interests of subscribers not to share proprietary info with all their friends. It's a tragedy-of-the-commons situation simple enough even your average luser gets it. Subscribers want to continue receiving very high quality content. They know that if that content isn't profitable it goes away.
Here's the big crucial clue everyone has missed so far: there is a difference between buying a virtual good -- like an e-book -- and subscribing to a a virtual service.
If you can rip off an e-book, and yeah, more or less you come out ahead. You got what you want. Authors rant about how if you don't pay for the one you want now, they won't be able to afford to make the next one. But, as everyone knows, that's a crap shoot. Just because an author wrote a book you liked doesn't mean you will necessarily care about the next book. Authors too numerous to mention have let their readers down on sequels. So the market is not terribly responsive to their pleas.
But a subscription is a relationship . You front your money with the belief that you will regularly get high quality content. If you don't think you will get sufficiently good content over the life of your subscription, you don't subscribe. And because it is a relationship, the other side can pull the plug if you cheat. But even more importantly, it is in your best interest to make sure that the company fulfilling the other end of your subscription-contract is still around to do so!
If you deprive the company with whom you have a subscription-contract of paying customers, they are going to stiff you the content you expect to get. Real simple.
Unlike with stand-alone good, in a subscription model, the seller has hostages.
Sure, there will be people who rip off a small number of articles. At my afforementioned client corp., they chalk such things up to good publicity, and just don't sweat it.
As far as security goes, the answer is to not have rigorous security. Tell people what the rules are, and if them break them, kill their accounts, no refund. If one name/password pair were to show massive simultaneous usage to multiple diverse IPs, don't you think they'd pull the plug?
The Playstation 2 was heralded as the first console with DVD support. It was pretty damn dodgy on the Japanese release and the US one seems to work pretty well.
So the question is, will there be a linux release of a dvd player for PS2? Will it be open source? And if so, will it include the ever so popular DeCSS code?
You've completely missed the point. With such well-animated characters, do any opportunities for anal rape arise? I mean, you may enjoy masturbating furiously to such high-quality erotica, but where's the backdoor action?
Ever noticed this obsession? If someone found a bunch of coral reefs, no one on slashdot would care. But one damn phallic symbol and you cockmongers jump all over it. Damn.
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Disney has a history of propaganda. In the past, it's been war propaganda in the case of World War II. Now, in the growing war between large corporations and the consumers just out for a fair deal, Disney has chosen a side. How can they justify it? Here's how old Walt justified two anti-Nazi films:
As for "DER FUEHRER'S FACE," we feel that a public character such as Donald Duck, writhing rebelliously in the clutches of the Nazis, will bring the situation home to every man, woman and child in this country as plainly as though they were witnessing the discomfiture of their own grandmothers. For Donald belongs to them like a member of their own family, and we guarantee they will end up hating Hitler twenty times more than if they had gone through the same ordeal with some curlyhaired hero who is, after all, merely another movie actor
Replace Hitler with copyright law breakers. Wouldn't it be nice if they stuck to REAL ISSUES?
How does this work? That's easy. There is a famous research company which sells it's reports on a subscription basis (for big, big bucks) and delivers primarily via the web these days. And they're wildly successful (as in "in the black") doing this.
The thing that you're missing is that slashdot's subscription service may also have subscriber-only content. Which is important. And makes it much more what that other company does.
Simply put, it is in the best interests of subscribers not to share proprietary info with all their friends. It's a tragedy-of-the-commons situation simple enough even your average luser gets it. Subscribers want to continue receiving very high quality content. They know that if that content isn't profitable it goes away.
Here's the big crucial clue everyone has missed so far: there is a difference between buying a virtual good -- like an e-book -- and subscribing to a a virtual service.
If you can rip off an e-book, and yeah, more or less you come out ahead. You got what you want. Authors rant about how if you don't pay for the one you want now, they won't be able to afford to make the next one. But, as everyone knows, that's a crap shoot. Just because an author wrote a book you liked doesn't mean you will necessarily care about the next book. Authors too numerous to mention have let their readers down on sequels. So the market is not terribly responsive to their pleas.
But a subscription is a relationship . You front your money with the belief that you will regularly get high quality content. If you don't think you will get sufficiently good content over the life of your subscription, you don't subscribe. And because it is a relationship, the other side can pull the plug if you cheat. But even more importantly, it is in your best interest to make sure that the company fulfilling the other end of your subscription-contract is still around to do so!
If you deprive the company with whom you have a subscription-contract of paying customers, they are going to stiff you the content you expect to get. Real simple.
Unlike with stand-alone good, in a subscription model, the seller has hostages.
Sure, there will be people who rip off a small number of articles. At my afforementioned client corp., they chalk such things up to good publicity, and just don't sweat it.
As far as security goes, the answer is to not have rigorous security. Tell people what the rules are, and if them break them, kill their accounts, no refund. If one name/password pair were to show massive simultaneous usage to multiple diverse IPs, don't you think they'd pull the plug?
The Playstation 2 was heralded as the first console with DVD support. It was pretty damn dodgy on the Japanese release and the US one seems to work pretty well.
So the question is, will there be a linux release of a dvd player for PS2? Will it be open source? And if so, will it include the ever so popular DeCSS code?
You've completely missed the point. With such well-animated characters, do any opportunities for anal rape arise? I mean, you may enjoy masturbating furiously to such high-quality erotica, but where's the backdoor action?
Ever noticed this obsession? If someone found a bunch of coral reefs, no one on slashdot would care. But one damn phallic symbol and you cockmongers jump all over it. Damn.