Better than Free (2008)
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Better than Free (2008)
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#2"The internet is a copy machine."
This truth is often hidden by some given abstraction.
(file, save, download, streaming, etc.)
Businesses have been built on such abstractions. Success stories.
On the flipside, existing businesses that were built before the internet who do not know the truth have been fed these abstractions. These businesses may stand nothing to gain from participating in the copy machine. Whomever is feeding these businesses with abstractions that hide the truth are not helping these businesses. They are helping themselves and watching these businesses being destroyed by a copy machine.
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#4Published January 31, 2008
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#5tl;dr: Reasons why people will still pay for digital content even though it can be reproduced at no cost: immediacy, personalization, interpretation, authenticity, accessibility, embodiment, patronage and findability. Advertising is notably absent from the list. Quoting:
> Careful readers will note one conspicuous absence so far. I have said nothing about advertising. Ads are widely regarded as the solution, almost the ONLY solution, to the paradox of the free. Most of the suggested solutions I’ve seen for overcoming the free involve some measure of advertising. I think ads are only one of the paths that attention takes, and in the long-run, they will only be part of the new ways money is made selling the free. But that’s another story.
Since this is (2008), does anyone know if that blog covered that "other story" at some point? I'm currently digging through a Google search for
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#6Thank you so much for posting this! I saw this when it was originally posted back in 2008 and think of it often but could never craft the google-fu needed to unearth it again!
(Findability, anyone?)
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#7Immediacy -- who really needs it?
I mean, for a movie, just wait a few months and you can download it.
If you don't want to wait, you still have to wait for the next movie to come out, so it makes no difference really.
To say it another way: no matter where you are in the pipeline, you still have to wait the same amount of time for new data to arrive.
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#8Immediacy -- who really needs it? I mean, for a movie, just wait a few months and you can download it. If you don't want to wait, you still have to wait for the next movie to come out, so it makes no difference really. To say it another way: no matter where you are in the pipeline, you still have to wait the same amount of time for new data to arrive.
Better Call Saul fan here. No way am I waiting.
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#9> Even a dog knows you can’t erase something once it’s flowed on the internet.
False. Dogs do not know anything about digital technology. Dogs barely understand dog leashes.
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#10Immediacy -- who really needs it? I mean, for a movie, just wait a few months and you can download it. If you don't want to wait, you still have to wait for the next movie to come out, so it makes no difference really. To say it another way: no matter where you are in the pipeline, you still have to wait the same amount of time for new data to arrive.
'need' : no
'preference' : yes
The whole entertainment industry can go away over the next month, it wouldn't matter much. But most would prefer it didn't. There's also more than enough movies/tv shows/sports recordings/music etc for anyone's lifetime, but most would prefer to see newer ones. Enough people can afford their preference to have new ones produced every day.