Look at the story from a couple days ago -- people complaining that you shouldn't have to pay for a meeting room to hold Linux User group meetings.
Every time a company tries to sell Linux software they get bashed for it.
Your can present all the facts, all the statistics, all the most fair and reasonable proposals, but it won't make a difference to the RIAA. They believe that an iron-fisted, totalitarian approach is the only way to do business, and they are so blinded by greed that it's absolutely impossible for them to even comprehend any other way.
Look at Janis Ian's site - she points out that if the record industry had partnered with Napster and set up a system to charge people 5 cents per song, they would have taken in $500,000 a day.
Half a million dollars a day, every day.
But the RIAA's mindset is "why should we let people have one song for a nickel when we can shut down Napster and people will be forced to go to a store and buy an entire CD for $15".
You almost have to wonder if this isn't being done knowing that it will fail.
Delivering video over the Internet is a stupid idea that is doomed from the beginning:
1. Half the people in the US don't access the Internet. Right off the bat you've cut your potential audience in half.
2. Too few people have broadband -- many people are unwilling to pay the extortionist prices charged by the cable/DSL companies while millions more live in areas where broadband isn't available at any price.
4. Broadband is too slow -- even if everyone magically had broadband tomorrow, it still takes hours to download large movie files and existing broadband is too slow to deliver streaming DVD quality full screen video. The cable/DSL companies in their infinite stupidity are making matters worse by imposing speed caps and download limits.
3. VCRs have been around for 20 years and people are used to the idea of being able to tape programs off TV for later viewing. Streaming video that can't be captured and other DRM schemes make Internet video devilery less attractive, compared to existing products.
5. Nobody wants it -- who wants to have the whole family crowded around a 17 inch monitor? Even people who live in rural areas usually have a video rental store a few minutes away.
Instead of worrying about an "Interplanetary Internet" how about if Vint Cerf spends some time cleaning up ICANN and making it less of a corrupt, scumbag organization.
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Look at the story from a couple days ago -- people complaining that you shouldn't have to pay for a meeting room to hold Linux User group meetings. Every time a company tries to sell Linux software they get bashed for it.
Mozilla is 10 meg - only about 45 minutes at 56k
Your can present all the facts, all the statistics, all the most fair and reasonable proposals, but it won't make a difference to the RIAA. They believe that an iron-fisted, totalitarian approach is the only way to do business, and they are so blinded by greed that it's absolutely impossible for them to even comprehend any other way.
Look at Janis Ian's site - she points out that if the record industry had partnered with Napster and set up a system to charge people 5 cents per song, they would have taken in $500,000 a day.
Half a million dollars a day, every day.
But the RIAA's mindset is "why should we let people have one song for a nickel when we can shut down Napster and people will be forced to go to a store and buy an entire CD for $15".
You almost have to wonder if this isn't being done knowing that it will fail.
Delivering video over the Internet is a stupid idea that is doomed from the beginning:
1. Half the people in the US don't access the Internet. Right off the bat you've cut your potential audience in half.
2. Too few people have broadband -- many people are unwilling to pay the extortionist prices charged by the cable/DSL companies while millions more live in areas where broadband isn't available at any price.
4. Broadband is too slow -- even if everyone magically had broadband tomorrow, it still takes hours to download large movie files and existing broadband is too slow to deliver streaming DVD quality full screen video. The cable/DSL companies in their infinite stupidity are making matters worse by imposing speed caps and download limits.
3. VCRs have been around for 20 years and people are used to the idea of being able to tape programs off TV for later viewing. Streaming video that can't be captured and other DRM schemes make Internet video devilery less attractive, compared to existing products.
5. Nobody wants it -- who wants to have the whole family crowded around a 17 inch monitor? Even people who live in rural areas usually have a video rental store a few minutes away.
Instead of worrying about an "Interplanetary Internet" how about if Vint Cerf spends some time cleaning up ICANN and making it less of a corrupt, scumbag organization.
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