David Honig wrote:
> >it would have considerable starting problems. not many people are so
> >sold on their favorite band that they'd buy a whole new home music
> >system to listen to their latest album.
>
> True, but the huge content + channel entities 0wn very large percentages
> of the pop content.
yes and no. they actually own only minor parts of the volume of music
created today. they DO own most of the volume of music SOLD today.
too-blatent attempts at realizing the usual monopoly gains might turn
around and bite them.
> >most likely, for the first
> >copies, piracy would run rampant,
>
> We're assuming a secure player. Only analog dupes
> would be possible.
that's what I was getting at: piracy as a form of conversion to the
"old" (and more common) format.
> >if it
> >were, they had done it for DVD.
>
> They were infinately more naif when they designed DVD.
agreed.
> A cornered dinosaur can try some drastic things.
like putting itself out of business in some panic move. I wish them the
worst. as I've written on my DeCSS pages: we're better of without them
anyways.
I hope they make some panic-driven stupid thing. it might be their last
chance to learn anything before evolution makes them roadkill. :)
