I agree. They want to have their cake and eat it too. They are pondering a model that not only should give customers more freedom (as in beer) but will also cost customers more time and resources. In order to download you almost certainly need a high speed connection, then in order to archive you need to buy a DVD-R and have the drive to burn it with. Not to mention the waiting for downloading to finish and the possiblity of losing content completely if your machine crashes before you have a chance to archive.
Compare that to the distribution model now where they are solely responsible for creating the physical copy of the work, and transporting it to a retailer where it takes a total 15 seconds to pick it up off the shelf and put it in your cart.
Take out that overhead and they expect to charge about the same? Screw that.
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...and let me be the first to say I've never seen the man in drag, but it would be worth a laugh.
I agree. They want to have their cake and eat it too. They are pondering a model that not only should give customers more freedom (as in beer) but will also cost customers more time and resources. In order to download you almost certainly need a high speed connection, then in order to archive you need to buy a DVD-R and have the drive to burn it with. Not to mention the waiting for downloading to finish and the possiblity of losing content completely if your machine crashes before you have a chance to archive. Compare that to the distribution model now where they are solely responsible for creating the physical copy of the work, and transporting it to a retailer where it takes a total 15 seconds to pick it up off the shelf and put it in your cart. Take out that overhead and they expect to charge about the same? Screw that.