[Info-vax] OT: About Digital and divisions

Sun Nov 20 14:25:25 EST 2011

Phillip Helbig---undress to reply wrote:
> 
> In article
> <2a46af63-1e22-4c62-931b-43d562b253b6 at h5g2000yqk.googlegroups.com>, Neil
> Rieck <n.rieck at sympatico.ca> writes:

> > Why is it that creative people keep
> > getting the short end of the stick? Imagine a world where all creative
> > people are driven back into traditional jobs: No music, no TV, no
> > movies, no books, no games, no art. What a crappy world that would be.
> 
> Indeed.  And illegal downloading is bringing us closer and closer to it.

This is an oversimplification.  There are *many* who download the stuff
as
a "preview."  If it's junk they move on, if it's good they want to "own"
it
and buy the media.

The real fear the publishing companies have is that with free[*]
downloads
they lose the oppertunity to manipulate the markets and choose what's
pop-
ular and what's not.  Here I can refer to the movie The Man from Earth.

[*] Not neccesarily illegal.

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