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Originally Posted by kane
If gas companies decided to do as you say only sell premium during the first week of the month, people would be out in the streets protesting and it wouldn't take long before the companies caved to their demands and started selling all the different grades of gas again. But here is the difference. Gas is something that most people need to get by in their day to day life. Movies are not. One is something that is vital to the average person being able to provide for themselves. The other is not. One is simply art. One is entertainment. If people protested in the streets demanding that movies be released in all formats the day they are released you might actually see some studios cave in and do that. But people don't riot in the streets because most of them don't care. Most of them understand that if they don't want to pay to see it in the theater they can wait a few months and rent it on DVD or pay-per-view. They don't see it as some life or death struggle like you do.
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btw if this was the burden need to establish a new fair use right
riots in the streets are the only way to justify repealing the abuse that fair use address none of the fair use we currently enjoy would exist
and none of the billion of dollar of new income would be enjoyed by the copyright holders today either
no one rioted in the streets because tv stations demanded that people schedule their lives around the airing of the tv show and it re runs (timeshifting and the vcr)
no one rioted in the streets because the record companies said you had to lugg around dozens of your favorite cd and swap them to hear your favorite songs (formating shifting and the diamond rio mp3 player)
both of those actions were an abuse, an artifical extension of the content distribution monopoly to the medium selection.
all the money, choice and new technology that was born out of that removal of that abuse is the historical proof that if this medium selection abuse is also removed (access shifting) the same thing will happen again.
in fact if you take the new technologies that indirectly spawned from format shifting , because of a commodization of pricing for solid state disks, there are potentially billions if not trillions of dollars of new technology that we can't even think of (ie from the commodization of camera components like lens and optical sensors)