This tells me that like recording artists, the text book authors aren't getting a big cut of those seemingly outragous prices charged by school book stores.
One of the best things the Internet has ever or will ever do is cut out the greedy middlemen.
Your looking at it only from the view of what you want. Don't forget about the view of those that are selling it.
There will always be a power struggle between content users and creators/distributors that want to maximize the long term profit from their product.
Look at what's happening in Congress and the court system, right or wrong, their bolstering the rights of content owners to make sure no-one uses their content in any way not authorized. The reason for this is clearly to open the door for more limited use sales of digital content.
DVDS are damn hard to copy for a reason, and if they thought that people would buy even more crippled versions, then they'd stop working after the 3rd time you watched em (remember Divx?).
I can't imagine VOD panning out to be anything other than a pay for use service model.
People want what they want when they want it, including content distributors who define that as "more of your monthy income"
I'm using my PCS phone and laptop to send this right now. It keeps my/. reading off the company connection and watchful eyes.
Sprint stopped selling the connection cables for their Vision Phones as soon as they came out with the unlimited plans. I bought my cable on Ebay and downloaded the management software and it works like a charm and doesn't appear anywhere on my bill.
I hope sprint doesn't track me down if I'm in violation of my plan, but I can't find anything in the contract that prohibits it (or allows it for that matter).
Competition (or oppression) has been known to improve the breed. It happened when they shut down Napster's servers, we don't need them anymore, and It'll happen again when we have to make it node sensing and again when we have to encrypt it and again....
BTW, anyone know why my Kazaa started crashing yesterday?;^)
Corprate Amerika is far to affective in flexing it's muscles in the legislative system, it's up to Judges to make clear headed decisions that aren't based on who has the most money to spend. When you do a
google search for
Nissan you come up with 3 unsponsored links to Nissan Motors and the 4th entry
is clearly labled Nissan Computer Corporation. Not only that he provides
instruction in the description to get to NissanDriven.com. Above and beyond the call of duty, IMHO.
Leave the guy alone, I say. And if it must go to court, he certainly
should win, and be compensated for his trouble. He owns it, he uses it and
he shouldn't have to sell it unless he chooses to. Period.
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This tells me that like recording artists, the text book authors aren't getting a big cut of those seemingly outragous prices charged by school book stores. One of the best things the Internet has ever or will ever do is cut out the greedy middlemen.
hehe. Glass houses and all...
I believe the $400K Savings they refered to was based on their annual cost of Surveying, not on system development costs...
...Plant a Flag right here and Claim Slashdot as Mine! All Mine! No one can stop me cause I claimed it first! ;-]
There will always be a power struggle between content users and creators/distributors that want to maximize the long term profit from their product.
Look at what's happening in Congress and the court system, right or wrong, their bolstering the rights of content owners to make sure no-one uses their content in any way not authorized. The reason for this is clearly to open the door for more limited use sales of digital content.
DVDS are damn hard to copy for a reason, and if they thought that people would buy even more crippled versions, then they'd stop working after the 3rd time you watched em (remember Divx?).
I can't imagine VOD panning out to be anything other than a pay for use service model.
People want what they want when they want it, including content distributors who define that as "more of your monthy income"
I thought it was funny... But my Karma sucks, so who cares what I think ;-)
where do your ideas come from? What's a smart guy like you doing on a low-brow site like this? /sig deleted to protect the guilty/
Am I first? Where is everybody?
I'm using my PCS phone and laptop to send this right now. It keeps my /. reading off the company connection and watchful eyes.
Sprint stopped selling the connection cables for their Vision Phones as soon as they came out with the unlimited plans. I bought my cable on Ebay and downloaded the management software and it works like a charm and doesn't appear anywhere on my bill.
I hope sprint doesn't track me down if I'm in violation of my plan, but I can't find anything in the contract that prohibits it (or allows it for that matter).
Competition (or oppression) has been known to improve the breed. It happened when they shut down Napster's servers, we don't need them anymore, and It'll happen again when we have to make it node sensing and again when we have to encrypt it and again.... BTW, anyone know why my Kazaa started crashing yesterday? ;^)
Corprate Amerika is far to affective in flexing it's muscles in the legislative system, it's up to Judges to make clear headed decisions that aren't based on who has the most money to spend. When you do a google search for Nissan you come up with 3 unsponsored links to Nissan Motors and the 4th entry is clearly labled Nissan Computer Corporation. Not only that he provides instruction in the description to get to NissanDriven.com. Above and beyond the call of duty, IMHO.
Leave the guy alone, I say. And if it must go to court, he certainly should win, and be compensated for his trouble. He owns it, he uses it and he shouldn't have to sell it unless he chooses to. Period.