Comments on: Post-scarcity marketing http://www.amerika.org/2009/organization/post-scarcity-marketing/ What is falling, push. Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:50:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Binlargin http://www.amerika.org/2009/organization/post-scarcity-marketing/comment-page-1/#comment-494 Binlargin Sat, 18 Apr 2009 12:40:00 +0000 http://www.amerika.org/?p=2584#comment-494 Even better, if the media industry embraced p2p technologies like bittorrent then they wouldn't have to charge people for downloads. Even better, if the media industry embraced p2p technologies like bittorrent then they wouldn’t have to charge people for downloads.

]]> By: David http://www.amerika.org/2009/organization/post-scarcity-marketing/comment-page-1/#comment-492 David Sat, 18 Apr 2009 02:41:05 +0000 http://www.amerika.org/?p=2584#comment-492 I've been following your blog for a few weeks now, and I think I've decided on something. You're not as crazy as I thought you were. (Apologies, but I had [Libertarian Crazypants] next to your blog in my reader for the longest time. I had you pegged as a Libertarian, but then you blew that out of the water with the "In Denial" entry, which I agreed mostly with too. But you're 100% dead-on right about this. There were people saying this same thing (don't mess with DRM, focus on licensing, you could even take off copy protections and pirated copies will not increase, etc) ten and fifteen years ago even before clients like Napster and Morpheus were on the scene and made it a massive thing. Can you imagine if the music producers, upon seeing Napster, bought it outright and started releasing their music through it - instead of Best Buy buying the rights to the name and letting everything else drop. (Note: that was probably the worst $121 million decision Best Buy has ever made. Nobody using Napster cared the slightest about the NAME.) Anyways, what I wanted to say was IAWTC. I’ve been following your blog for a few weeks now, and I think I’ve decided on something.

You’re not as crazy as I thought you were. (Apologies, but I had [Libertarian Crazypants] next to your blog in my reader for the longest time. I had you pegged as a Libertarian, but then you blew that out of the water with the “In Denial” entry, which I agreed mostly with too.

But you’re 100% dead-on right about this. There were people saying this same thing (don’t mess with DRM, focus on licensing, you could even take off copy protections and pirated copies will not increase, etc) ten and fifteen years ago even before clients like Napster and Morpheus were on the scene and made it a massive thing.

Can you imagine if the music producers, upon seeing Napster, bought it outright and started releasing their music through it – instead of Best Buy buying the rights to the name and letting everything else drop.

(Note: that was probably the worst $121 million decision Best Buy has ever made. Nobody using Napster cared the slightest about the NAME.)

Anyways, what I wanted to say was IAWTC.

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