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April 07, 2005
Memo to Copyright Holders
As Dean reminded me in a whimsical email the other day, people pay ludicrously inflated prices for water.
Free downloading doesn’t spell the end of payment-for-creativity. It changes the marketplace — but observe that it’s the oligopolists who still make money from selling water.
There is and will continue to be a viable business in the packaging and distribution of movies, music, books, whatever. “Viable,” that is, for operators perceptive and nimble enough to negotiate the change in the ecology of commerce.
Posted by AKMA at April 7, 2005 10:20 AM | Threadorati
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