What we're talking about is getting a revenue stream to content makers (not merely providers like MPAA or RIAA companies but actual creative people) not just to make it worth their while to produce new work, but also to fund the costs involved in putting together work that is capital intensive (e.g. a movie or theatrical production). Your preferred types of entertainment are experiential--it matters that you are the one participating in sports, just watching isn't enough, so its easier to make you pay for part of capital costs (equipment). But someone has to pay for maintaining the venues for your sports: hiking trails, lakes and streams, etc. Maybe we should think of the costs of putting together a big budget movie like the costs of keeping the Grand Canyon open. Although people invest in the capital of playback equipment, like DVD players, people are paying less and less of the costs of content because technology makes it easier to copy. Maybe we need to fund the revenue stream for art by incorporate the costs of experiencing art, music, movies, like the British fund the BBC by putting a tax on TVs.
Here is a market niche for entrepreneurs to fill. Is there an Ebay.jp?
Already in USA we can often obtain used low-mileage engines from Japanese cars that are cheaper than fixing the engines that came with those cars originally.
Selling the entire car limits the market to countries that drive on the left, but I hear tell that Australia and NZ import alot of the Japanese cars that are too expensive to maintain under the Japanese laws but run just fine.
IANAL, but there's something called a state action doctrine which allows governments to make regulations which would otherwise be considered to violate antitrust law.
See, for example, http://repositories.cdlib.org/blewp/art140/
Brake fluid absorbs water but too much absorption and it's no longer compressable. For your own safety you ought to have the fluid flushed and changed.
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What we're talking about is getting a revenue stream to content makers (not merely providers like MPAA or RIAA companies but actual creative people) not just to make it worth their while to produce new work, but also to fund the costs involved in putting together work that is capital intensive (e.g. a movie or theatrical production). Your preferred types of entertainment are experiential--it matters that you are the one participating in sports, just watching isn't enough, so its easier to make you pay for part of capital costs (equipment). But someone has to pay for maintaining the venues for your sports: hiking trails, lakes and streams, etc. Maybe we should think of the costs of putting together a big budget movie like the costs of keeping the Grand Canyon open. Although people invest in the capital of playback equipment, like DVD players, people are paying less and less of the costs of content because technology makes it easier to copy. Maybe we need to fund the revenue stream for art by incorporate the costs of experiencing art, music, movies, like the British fund the BBC by putting a tax on TVs.
Here is a market niche for entrepreneurs to fill. Is there an Ebay.jp?
Already in USA we can often obtain used low-mileage engines from Japanese cars that are cheaper than fixing the engines that came with those cars originally.
Selling the entire car limits the market to countries that drive on the left, but I hear tell that Australia and NZ import alot of the Japanese cars that are too expensive to maintain under the Japanese laws but run just fine.
IANAL, but there's something called a state action doctrine which allows governments to make regulations which would otherwise be considered to violate antitrust law. See, for example, http://repositories.cdlib.org/blewp/art140/
Brake fluid absorbs water but too much absorption and it's no longer compressable. For your own safety you ought to have the fluid flushed and changed.
Camino 0.7 is clear, too.