I gotta think about those thin margins. It still seems to me that CDs are marked up even more in the stores.
If you look hard enough you can find CDs for less than $10. For stores like Sam Goody and Virgin to continually sell CDs above $20 is outrageous. These guys want copy protection as much as the rest of them. Thinner margins would also imply they would be the ones pushing hardest for everybody to buy CDs.
I think all participants are partly to blame for this.
> The Great Big Lie has everybody forgetting this. Everybody get it through thy skulls! Copyright, and intellectual property is and never will be physical property! So you dont get to distribute it, or protect it like physical property. End of story.
Of course it isn't like physical property, it is called intellectual property. However, to prevent someone from owning these ideas means that nobody will come up with ideas. If artists and publishers never got any money, there would be a lot less art. If researchers couldn't patent their ideas we would not have a lot of what we have today.
>The Great Big Lie has everybody forgetting this. Everybody get it through thy skulls! Copyright, and intellectual property is and never will be physical property! So you dont get to distribute it, or protect it like physical property. End of story.
So what? All companies do this, you sign away all rights you have on a patentable idea when you enter research industries. You have to go independent to retain those rights.
If this thing becomes the standard any new hardware will be able to play it. Just like nobody wants to buy CDs they can't play, nobody would be willing to spend even more on hardware that can't play all they want to play.
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I gotta think about those thin margins. It still seems to me that CDs are marked up even more in the stores. If you look hard enough you can find CDs for less than $10. For stores like Sam Goody and Virgin to continually sell CDs above $20 is outrageous. These guys want copy protection as much as the rest of them. Thinner margins would also imply they would be the ones pushing hardest for everybody to buy CDs. I think all participants are partly to blame for this.
> The Great Big Lie has everybody forgetting this. Everybody get it through thy skulls! Copyright, and intellectual property is and never will be physical property! So you dont get to distribute it, or protect it like physical property. End of story. Of course it isn't like physical property, it is called intellectual property. However, to prevent someone from owning these ideas means that nobody will come up with ideas. If artists and publishers never got any money, there would be a lot less art. If researchers couldn't patent their ideas we would not have a lot of what we have today. >The Great Big Lie has everybody forgetting this. Everybody get it through thy skulls! Copyright, and intellectual property is and never will be physical property! So you dont get to distribute it, or protect it like physical property. End of story. So what? All companies do this, you sign away all rights you have on a patentable idea when you enter research industries. You have to go independent to retain those rights.
If this thing becomes the standard any new hardware will be able to play it. Just like nobody wants to buy CDs they can't play, nobody would be willing to spend even more on hardware that can't play all they want to play.