Would you buy the DVD if you could watch a movie free online?
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| The producers of a full length documentary movie charting the Bush
| administration's path to war in Iraq are offering it as a free download from
| the Internet in the belief that this will boost online sales of the DVD.
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/17939/1063/
Yesterday:
When Authors Ask Us About the Consequences of "Piracy"
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| The HF books work really well as books, so at best the torrents act as
| advertisements for the superior print product (not often you can say that
| with a straight face). At worst most of your downloads are going to people
| who wouldn't have bought the book at cover price and who will, if they enjoy
| it, rave about it to others.
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http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2008/04/when-authors-ask-us-about-the-consequences-of-piracy.html
Related:
Business Model Gone Bad: The Music and Movie Edition
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| How Realistic is this new Business Model?
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| How realistic is this? I think it is very realistic.
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http://www.5thwind.com/?p=58
Music boss: we were wrong to go to war with consumers
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| The boss of Warner Music has made a rare public confession that the music
| industry has to take some of the blame for the rise of p2p file sharing.
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http://www.pcpro.co.uk/macuser/news/138990/music-boss-we-were-wrong-to-go-to-war-with-consumers.html
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