Giveaways vs DVD cash cow
p2pnet.net News View:- This Australian IT article by Jeffrey Goldfarb includes:
British newspapers are now giving away free as many DVDs as are being purchased in stores, revealing a silent factor contributing to the decline of Hollywood’s cash cow format.
Lets be clear: This isn’t unauthorized copying. Rather, it’s newspapers licensing older movies and bundling them with newspapers.
The claim this is causing a “decline” in revenue lays bare the reality that the fight Hollywood has isn’t against unauthorized copying, but against competition.
This also exposes the reality with ever increasing or obfuscated copyright terms: it’s not that these intermediaries want to collect more money from older movies, but that they don’t want these older movies to compete with new releases.
It’s time to stop changing the law to protect outdated business models, but to instead allow some of these antiquated business models to be replaced by innovation.
Russell McOrmond – p2pnet contributing editor
[McOrmond is an independent author (software and non-software) who uses modern business models and licensing (Free/Libre and Open Source Software, Creative Commons). He's also the CLUE policy coordinator.]
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