On Wed, 6 Jul 2005, Thane Sherrington wrote:
Here's another thought on this: Did he really lose $50,000 due to P2P,
or was he priced out of the market and never would have sold enough to
cover costs to begin with?
FWIW: SOMEONE bought it at the price he was asking, in fact, by the way I
read it he had a steady revenue stream. Then the video appeared on P2P
and it just "happened" to coincide with when sales stopped.
Very hard to compete with free.
People blame business failures on all sorts of things - sometimes
they're right, and sometimes it's just a scapegoat. I'm not sure which
it is in this case.
I'm inclined to believe P2P killed the revenue of a niche market. Problem
with things like this is you go searching for something like it (likely
advertising budget is nil) and find his website on google. Link below it
is the torrent/zip/ftp/whatever.
Which does the average person take?
Christopher Fisk
--
I'll get a bunch of monkeys, dress 'em up, and make 'em reenact the Civil
War! Heh, heh, heh!
-- Homer Simpson, Homer the Great
