Comments on: Hollywood meets p2p http://www.p2pnet.net/story/7219 p2pnet.net - reader powered Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:11:09 -0300 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/7219/comment-page-1#comment-25837 Reader's Write Wed, 07 Dec 2005 01:16:30 +0000 #comment-25837 It has taken Average Joe to show Hollydud and the media cartels that the internet has it's advantages. Advantages that just don't fit the cartels old model of limited product and high prices. The cartels are fighting a come from behind battle to attempt to gain the center stage of attention because they were both too dense to see it and it doesn't readily fit their conception of market. Only now are they seeing in reflection that the internet is the next video store and record store and Average Joe has left them behind long ago. Whether you can watch it on the tv screen and from the couch is only determined by the level of skill of the computer user. What is for certain is that no matter how you choose to watch or listen is no longer left to the cartels. Average Joe can now have it his way and he has the say over what way that is. He can determine, without aid of the cartels, exactly what fits his lifestyle. Maybe that last one should be rephrased to say that inspite of the cartels, as they are doing everything possible to styme this new revolution of communication and entertainment until they can get a paying market put into place. Trouble is that the cartels aren't very good at adapting. They get their teeth into a model and it is hog heaven till something threatens that existance and once again removes them from easy street. One has only to look at that example that has been dragged up for review countless times before where lack of flexiability is demonstrated on the part of the cartels, that of the video tape. A market they were dead set against ever having a chance to develop. It now holds most favored status as their biggest income maker as they failed to kill it and the courts ruled in favor of it continuing to exist. It got the break that the DAT tape did not. The DAT tape held just as much promise for revolution in how the customer accessed music as the offspring of the cassette tape. However the cartels were successful in killing it and it never made it to the forefront. That is a prime example of just how we the consumer are hurt everytime the cartels are successful in stiffling another innovation. Compared to internet potential, the DAT tape is small time. A forgotten item in a list of failed attempts to bring us the customer ever more choices and an increasing choice of lifestyle. That same failed attempt is the end result of the cartels should they succeed in taming the internet to their dominion. The customer will no longer have a choice and you can see it in every attempted move to stifle this newest media offering a world of possibilities to the Average Joe. It has taken Average Joe to show Hollydud and the media cartels that the internet has it’s advantages. Advantages that just don’t fit the cartels old model of limited product and high prices. The cartels are fighting a come from behind battle to attempt to gain the center stage of attention because they were both too dense to see it and it doesn’t readily fit their conception of market.

Only now are they seeing in reflection that the internet is the next video store and record store and Average Joe has left them behind long ago. Whether you can watch it on the tv screen and from the couch is only determined by the level of skill of the computer user. What is for certain is that no matter how you choose to watch or listen is no longer left to the cartels. Average Joe can now have it his way and he has the say over what way that is. He can determine, without aid of the cartels, exactly what fits his lifestyle. Maybe that last one should be rephrased to say that inspite of the cartels, as they are doing everything possible to styme this new revolution of communication and entertainment until they can get a paying market put into place.

Trouble is that the cartels aren’t very good at adapting. They get their teeth into a model and it is hog heaven till something threatens that existance and once again removes them from easy street. One has only to look at that example that has been dragged up for review countless times before where lack of flexiability is demonstrated on the part of the cartels, that of the video tape. A market they were dead set against ever having a chance to develop. It now holds most favored status as their biggest income maker as they failed to kill it and the courts ruled in favor of it continuing to exist. It got the break that the DAT tape did not. The DAT tape held just as much promise for revolution in how the customer accessed music as the offspring of the cassette tape. However the cartels were successful in killing it and it never made it to the forefront. That is a prime example of just how we the consumer are hurt everytime the cartels are successful in stiffling another innovation.

Compared to internet potential, the DAT tape is small time. A forgotten item in a list of failed attempts to bring us the customer ever more choices and an increasing choice of lifestyle. That same failed attempt is the end result of the cartels should they succeed in taming the internet to their dominion. The customer will no longer have a choice and you can see it in every attempted move to stifle this newest media offering a world of possibilities to the Average Joe.

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