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09.04.07

Idiots. Complete idiots. Media, nbc, piracy, television | (4)
It's old news but I can't resist commenting on it. NBC leaves iTunes. Michael Gartenberg puts it right: Sometimes I think God put video content guys on the planet to make the music guys look progressive and visionary. iLounge sums up: Let me explain something to you, because you don’t seem to understand it already. Your TV shows are available every day, every week, and every month of the year for free. They fly through the air (and travel through cables) at no a la carte charge to customers. There was also this thing called a VCR, which more recently has been replaced ...
07.09.07

5½ lessons that legitimate retailers can learn from pirates DRM, law, piracy, rights | (3)
Sadly, the story about how Bob the Millionaire Became a pirate is still highly relevant. And not long ago Mark Pilgrim had an article out that describes a couple of lessons that the professional part of the industry could learn from the pirates. Well worth a read. A story to show the problem If you have two shops down the street. One sell illegal copies of movies and one sell legal originals. The shop with the illegal copies work like this: you go inside, find what you want, have a look at it, pay and go home. At home you play the movie ...

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