John Gilmore wrote:
Exactly. Time segmentation already practiced by the movie studios and book publishers, and it's pretty hard to arbitrage -- until somebody invents time travel.The kind of segmentation your graphs rely on can easily be created by *time* segmentation. Producers start off charging high prices for their goods, and then gradually reduce the prices as they ramp up volumes, pay off their startup costs, learn the desires of their market better, etc. This gets the social benefit you desire, without propping up any artificial forms of segmentation.
Much movie piracy is driven by the strange practice of releasing new movies in different countries at different times. This is a major form of geographic market segmentation. If "Two Towers" had been released world-wide on the same day instead of only in the US and a few other countries, then there would have been little motivation for anxious fans around the world to get US collaborators to make a crappy videotape of the film in a US theater and export it. They'd just go to their local theaters and see it in its full glory.
Phil
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