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Originally Posted by gideongallery
if all oil companies who controlled gasoline decided to only sell super unlead the first week of the month, uleaded the second week and regualar the last 2 weeks they could jack the price up of the premium grades a lot more than normal
people who would be perfectly happy with regular gas in their car would be forced to pay $3/litre.
but that extra money would be an abuse of the monopoly.
When you point to the hangover and state that would not make the same amount of money if they let the mediums compete against each other fairly you are proving the point that i am making.
All that extra money, is from artifically extending the monopoly on content distribution to medium selection.
if the copyright holder liciences all the content to all the mediums at the same time
they get all the money still.
they just don't get revenue from forcing people to use a MEDIUM they don't want to use.
look back at every fair use
vcr = universal tried to force people to use a medium for timeshifting ( re runs)
mp3= sony tried to force people to use a medium for playing (CD)
the new medium was better, consumers prefered them because they had competitive advantages over the one that the copyright holder was attempting to force people to use.
The copyright holder made more money by forcing such a medium choice, but fair use invalid that act, because the copyright monopoly is only supposed to protect the income from the distribution of the content, and not the income generated by abusing that monopoly to make an inferior medium superior.
amazingly every single time that happened, more money was made by the content creators.
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People are not being forced to watch something in a medium that they don't want to use. They are being asked to wait until it is available to them. Just because you want it today doesn't mean you can have it today. Maybe you have to wait for it. That is how it works. The movie comes out in the theater and you can CHOOSE to go see it. You are not FORCED to go see it. You are REQUIRED to go see it. If you want to watch it, you can. If you would rather not pay that price or can't get to the theater for whatever reason you can wait a few months then watch it on DVD or pay-per-view. You will still get to see it, you just have to wait.
Yes when the VCR came into being they made more money. Why? Simple. They released the movie in theaters and built up word of mouth and built up anticipation then they sold the movie on tape. They use the theater as much as a form of marketing as they do a form of income and they should be allowed to use that tool as a way to sell their product.