Obviously such variable pricing works because the number of seats in
the theatre is limited and they have a half life. It's not dissimilar
to the freshness of vegetables on the shelf at the grocer which expire
or the freshness of media. If a seat in the theatre goes unsold it's
not recoverable. If a bunch of carrots go unsold they are not
recoverable.
What happens to the price for a "show" on the Internet once it is no
longer fresh, can it still be sold as "new"? Can a secondary market
develop and, if so, how will it work?
One of the things that internet distribution has going for it is the ability to time-shift the media, which cuts into this theory a little bit. Although for shows like Rocketboom that deal with current events, or news shows, I guess the carrot analogy holds true.
Most stuff I watch doesn't necessarily lose value as time goes by.
Sites like the NYtimes charge people for archive diving. Maybe there's something there. The latest week's worth of media is freely distributable by all the available means, but anything older than a week costs X, where X is a reasonable price for a short video that someone wants to watch.
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