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Originally Posted by moz
The point is more that the content is not actually free, someone has to create it. Once you leave hobbiests behind there's a need to support the creators.
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I do not think that is the issue. The main thrust of the article is that the marginal cost of distributing digital content is going to zero and businesses need to adapt, pointing out ways in which this could be done.
Of course one way to respond is to fight the trend either by lawsuits and laws (music) or by not releasing the content digitally (books). The problem with lawsuits/laws is that outside of turning off the internet that is not going to work. Look at the big fuss over Comcast and p2p...
Not releasing your products digitally works to some extent, but you lose revenue, market, have to contend with those that do release their wares digitally. The jury is still out on that tactic in my opinion, but I think it's a slow suicide.
So the question still remains: how to generate enough revenue from digital content and the article addresses some ideas, which may all work in some cases since personally I think that will be answer -
it depends - and the uniformity of earlier times (buy a book, pay for it...) is gone