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Pretty Good Update for E-Mail Privacy
By Kevin Savetz
Special to The Washington Post
Sunday, January 5, 2003; Page H06
Internet users send millions of e-mail messages every day, oblivious to
their lack
Regarding the acquittal of Jon Johansen, I quoted CNN
as saying:
The studios argued unauthorised copying was copyright theft
and undermined a market for DVDs and videos worth $20
billion a year in North America alone.
Some elements of the industry did indeed claim that,
but such claims are
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John S. Denker wrote:
Note that in the absence of market segmentation,
the society as a whole is worse off.
I see what you mean, but do you think it applies to DVDs? The
segmentation needs to be in each market, between rich and poor
consumers. What we actually have is segmentation between
John S. Denker writes:
The main thing the industry really had at stake in
this case is the zone locking aka region code
system.
I don't see much evidence for this. As you go on to admit, multi-region
players are easily available overseas. You seem to be claiming that the
industry's main goal
Pete Chown [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
John S. Denker wrote:
Note that in the absence of market segmentation,
the society as a whole is worse off.
I see what you mean, but do you think it applies to DVDs? The
segmentation needs to be in each market, between rich and poor
consumers.
It would be nice to have an enlightened discussion of such topics.
Lay people often react to differential pricing for the same good with a
sense of unfairness. No matter how many times they are lectured by the
economists that it is actually to the benefit of all that producers be able
to charge
On Wed, 8 Jan 2003, Nomen Nescio wrote:
John S. Denker writes:
The main thing the industry really had at stake in
this case is the zone locking aka region code
system.
I don't see much evidence for this. As you go on to admit, multi-region
players are easily available overseas. You
Nomen Nescio [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I don't see much evidence for this. As you go on to admit, multi-region
players are easily available overseas.
Sure, but they're generally illegal. I can buy grey market
non-regioned players in the U.S. but the manufacturers are violating
within the
On 7 Jan 2003, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
I don't know anyone who trades video files -- they're pretty big and
bulky. A song takes moments to download, but a movie takes many many
hours even on a high speed link. I have yet to meet someone who
pirates films -- but I know lots of hardened
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On 7 Jan 2003 at 20:25, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
I don't know anyone who trades video files -- they're pretty
big and bulky. A song takes moments to download, but a movie
takes many many hours even on a high speed link. I have yet
to meet someone who pirates films -- but I know lots
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On 8 Jan 2003 at 0:30, Ian Brown wrote:
the public tends to be skeptical when an industry claims that
expert opinion shows that what is good for the company will
also be good for the nation, and that state aid in enforcing
its desires will produce an economically efficient result
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