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| Re: XP updates [message #92627 is a reply to message #92619] |
Sun, 11 November 2007 14:18   |
uptown jimmy
Messages: 441
Registered: September 2005
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Chris Ludwig
ADK Pro Audio
(859) 635-5762
www.adkproaudio.com
chrisl@adkproaudio.comThe question we were discussing was not whether bandwidth is good or bad for
a certain kind of artist, or good or bad for a particular industry, or good
or bad for 'content and services' which means I'm not sure what. What I said,
and what you're basically agreeing to, is that as bandwidth increases data
gets cheaper.
Now then, obviously if one is making horrible music the 'content' is less
likely to draw customers to use some of their bandwidth to get/purchase it.
However, even if you have the super bitchingist content ever you will still
be subject to the price dynamic--i.e. the easier it is to get the lower the
price you will get for it. You can try to create some artificial scarcity
but so far the only two ways tried (DRM and suing your customers) have been
dismal failures.
To use the book example again. Illuminated manuscripts are, in my opinion,
some of the most beautiful objects ever created by the mind of man. If I
ever get rich I will certainly own a few. I'm sure your Medieval Scribes
Local 310 saw the first printed books and scoffed saying, 'Our content and
services are SO much better than this trash we don't even need to worry.
Who would want one of these hideous things, even if they are cheap?' And
50 years later there were probably more printed books in circulation than
had been produced by hand in the history of Europe, and the scribe business
was in serious trouble. Track the history of the internet from Compuserve
and AOL through MSN and the telcos down to google and bittorrent and MySpace
and you'll see it getting stupider, easier, cheaper, and m
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| Re: XP updates [message #92628 is a reply to message #92627] |
Sun, 11 November 2007 14:41 |
Don Nafe
Messages: 1206
Registered: July 2005
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ore filled with
porn. I'm not saying whether this is right or wrong, for that you'll have
to consult someone confident about such things like an ethicist or DC, I'm
just pointing out the way things have worked so far, not just with the internet
but other technologies as well. I don't see whey something as simple as music
distribution will be able to make the rain fall up when it comes to the dynamics
of price and scarcity.
TCB
Jamie K <Meta@Dimensional.com> wrote:
>TCB wrote:
>> Except that the world has never worked that way. I didn't say with enough
>> bandwidth everything is free, I said that as bandwidth (and storage) increase
>> the price of data will inevitably decrease. It might not be a linear relationship
>> and it might not happen right away, but it's the way the world works.
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>We agree that costs are going down.
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>I think where I part ways with you on this one is the vague translation
>from "content" to "data." It's as if a field of vegetables and a field
>of nuclear waste were combined into the single description of "dirt."
>It's not all just "dirt." What's actually in the field matters.
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>Likewise all content and services can't be merely hand waved away as
>"data." What's actually encoded into the bitstream matters.
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>I see higher data bandwidth as being beneficial to producing and
>distributing content and services, not detrimental. Potentially better
>for price, for increased consumer and artist choices, and certainly
>better for value. And as costs go down for moving bits around, woohoo,
>that's lower overhead.
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>There are companies being built on the increasing bandwidth and making
>money. Bigger bandwidth means better content and services can be
>offered. The internet is growing as the content and services improve and
>the demand continues to increase.
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>This month, rumor has it, iTunes will start renting movies. Making more
>money on the increasing bandwidth available.
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>> And it doesn't matter whether an artist wants to be a T-Shirt shop or
a bucket
&g
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