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Originally Posted by Mutt
Classified ads - there's no need now to buy an ad in a big newspaper or Buy n Sell type newspaper to sell your car, furniture, musical instruments etc. Craigslist and other sites like it work as well and are free.
Daily newspaper - who subscribes to a daily newspaper these days? A helluva lot less than 10 years ago.
Music? Digital downloading killed off the good ol' 'record store'. Itunes is replacing them but the record companies and artists are making less.
Movies? TV programs? You may be using Netflix but there are tons of people I know who download brand new in the theater movies off the Net for free.
Porn - used to have to actually go into a store and pay 10 bucks for a skin mag or rent an XXX video for 5 bucks a night rental.
Software - hundreds of places on the Net where u can get anything you want for free.
Dating services - yes in major cities there are/were real dating services - Plentyoffish and other dating sites with real women not fake profiles are there for free.
PPV TV events - if you're ok watching a Flash video stream of lesser quality you'll find it on the Net.
Other than hard goods everything can be had for free on the Net. And as for hard goods - people can find the absolute rock bottom low price and order it off the Net. Just go to stores, find the products you like - then go online and find it for 30-50% less somewhere online.
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You sort of missed my point. I said name a situation where content is produced, then given away for free which has been a "success".
Classified ads don't count. The newspaper example is the exact opposite, they put their content on the web and newspapers are dropping like flies. Revenue down 50% or more from a year ago. The profits generated from the web don't come close to making up that gap. The rest of the examples you used are all cases of bootlegging, not a business evolution towards free.