Eugene Leitl wrote:
> [...] I'm not worried about music or texts (street
> performer procol & Co), I'm worried about movies, which
> are real expensive to make.
I imagine people will still go to the cinema, which would be
rather easy to regulate. And then there's merchandising.
So you're really only talking about the loss of video sales.
Even then you can add interactive elements, stream the
content, and the resulting non-linearity should make capture
more difficult. (This is why software is safe: if you
stream software, which you should, it's almost impossible to
capture. This is obvious to see in videogames, where you
can stream in geometry, textures, etc, according to game
state. Trying to grab all the data is not an easy task and
can be made much more difficult, perhaps impossible, by
design.) I also think that if the payment scheme is simple
enough the majority of people are going to download from the
official site rather than use P2P software, especially if
the publishers realise that the experience of the movie (or
book, or song) begins before the purchase. (And if movie,
music, and book publishers start offering small fees for
referrals you can also expect official, paying links to be
as prevalent as banner ads for porn.)
BM
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