on Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 08:17:41AM -0800, Eric Rescorla ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
on Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 04:10:27PM -0800, Eric Rescorla ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
However, if he can price discriminate, he can sell two copies,
On Thursday 09 January 2003 01:03 pm, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
I am unaware of legal region-free players being generally available in
the US, although I may be wrong on this.
They are available at any Best Buy or Fry's Electronics. They
just can't advertise it on the boxes. See the following
In any case, some countries in Europe (this is the case for France and Switzerland,
for example) are starting to make it illegal to sell disks that are not REGION-2
in the stores... so in effect, you can buy all the region free players in
the world, if you have no access to the internet to buy
At 08:45 AM 01/08/2003 -0800, Eric Rescorla wrote:
Maybe. Not necessarily if that meant that no new movies ever got
made. Now, the UK isn't a big enough market for this, but consider
what would happen if the US said listen, free drugs would be great
for consumers so let's get rid of all drug
Date: Thu, 09 Jan 2003 10:18:33 +
From: Pete Chown [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Alan wrote:
Another argument for the regions is the differing formats for TV
signals. (NTSC v.s. PAL.) It is a bogus argument as you can find DVD
players that will convert the signal with little or no problem.
Eric Rescorla wrote:
William Allen Simpson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Therefore, your graphs say to me: market segmentation is indicative of
Of course. But the point that you seem to be missing is that there are
situations where a monopoly can Pareto-dominate non-monopoly situations.
The
Bill Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
It's fairly well-known that far more people died from
regulation-caused delays in deployment of several heart-attack drugs
than from active damage by failures such as misuse of thalidomide,
though some people still believe that we're better off because
William Allen Simpson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Eric Rescorla wrote:
William Allen Simpson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Therefore, your graphs say to me: market segmentation is indicative of
Of course. But the point that you seem to be missing is that there are
situations where a
John S. Denker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Eric Rescorla wrote:
When there is a conflict between liberty and Pareto
dominance, economists get a headache.
Really? Maybe some of them do, but I suspect most of
them wouldn't formulate it as a conflict at all; they
would just ask how
William Allen Simpson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I thought I made a fairly clear and cogent original synopsis,
Clear, cogent, and wrong.
Eric Rescorla wrote:
So, in the matter of DVDs, we all agree that the product _has_ been
produced. There are only artificial barriers in the market.
No.
I thought I made a fairly clear and cogent original synopsis, but apparently we're
heading off into religious wars.
I'm going to invert Eric's argument:
Eric Rescorla wrote:
William Allen Simpson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The question raised was whether the commodity would be produced. The
The discussion has been interesting but has gotten WAY out of the area
of crypto politics per se. I'll be blocking that stuff unless it makes
interesting new crypto or crypto politics points.
--
Perry E. Metzger[EMAIL PROTECTED]
I've been composing this reply for days, and the thread just keeps
getting longer, so I'll try to keep the response concise, and consolidate
in a single message.
Before it gets lost in the shuffle, I do want to thank John Gilmore for
actual technical crypto information! I had no idea that
William Allen Simpson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[..]
Therefore, your graphs say to me: market segmentation is indicative of
Of course. But the point that you seem to be missing is that there are
situations where a monopoly can Pareto-dominate non-monopoly situations.
Eric Rescorla wrote:
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