On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 11:17 AM, Sumant Srivathsan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Plus, there's the coughpiracycough. Something that MoserBaer was actually fighting rather well with their low cost, high quality movie DVDs but IIRC, that's been nixed because the producers wanted either a larger percentage of the sale price or a larger number altogether. Of course, 100% of 0 is still 0 so the pirates continue to win... Shekhar Kapur seems to see the light... "But let me get back to my own field. Media and Entertainment. We are more and more moving int a digital and an instantaneous world. Where the commercial life of a product may be huge but for shorter and shorter periods of time. For example a Video on youtube when it works ut its revenue models. A popular video in the future may get a billion downloads in a couple of days and make a billion dollars. In that scenario, how long would the video maker ask for protection of intellectual property ? One week maybe ? And then allow the video to be downloaded free, so that he/she gets a huge following for the next video. I know this is an extreme example, but then it is good to look at extreme examples to understand the nature of the problem. Corporations scream about Piracy. The big music corporations went ballistic and got Napster shut down. Only to realize that Napster showed them the way to revive their flagging music sales through single song downloads. Napster was the origins of the Ipod and Itunes." "Hey ... Indian films face the greatest Piracy problems, but the box office keeps going up. The pirated films are even played on regulr Cable channels beamed straight into your TV set. Lets get this straight. The Pirates work on ground level and know how to get the product to the consumer at the price they want it, where they want it, and how they want it. Hollywood better get off it's high horse and learn, just as the music bussiness learnt from Napster. Had it not been for the chaos created by Napster ; Itunes, and DRM etc would not have been born. The music bussiness based on sale of DVD albums at jacked up prices would have collapsed." http://www.shekharkapur.com/blog/archives/2006/11/intellectual_pr.htm http://www.shekharkapur.com/blog/archives/2007/04/piracy_china_an.htm -- Please read our new blog at: http://blog.prathambooks.org
