anyonesee
@optonline.net
| reply to rob_in_chatt
Re: Dominance
Hey, anyone see ABC's John Stossel's
"Give Me a Break" ?? He went through the top 10 myths of seemingly bad things that are actually good. But I think he missed out on one, George Bush getting re-elected.... people losing their jobs to outsourcing is a good thing, greed (or privitization) is good too, versus sharingm, etc etc etc..
Anyone can make a perception of something seemingly good seem bad: it's called politics. Microsoft being the transport of choice. Cable companies have snubbed M.$. for years about providing a digital tv 'box' and 'codec' format for ip/digital based TV services, well.. if Windows XP is any indication-- it will be hacked in no-time flat... 
Next, the service will provide directv and video on demand services via the network... probably have some form of unbundling of channels.
Where it gets sticky, is what happens when people file swap at 2-15mbits the content that they pay to receive? The music industry found it's first big enemy, the windows based pc's and mp3 file format... No doubt some combination of codecs (2-3) will come together to find the best scaleable balance of quality and compression (divx/xvid/mpeg look like short term winners today) because it allows for what people want to do with it (share), but it won't be long before content providers will be going through a similar crisis. Tough, that's technology's process... And I personally think that anyone who pays for a cable tv bill 12/12 months each year should not be charged with ripping off most content, since it will eventually be transmitted as permissions in a future licensed verssion as part of your catv bill, so.. there!
The only abhorant thing you should not be able to do is profit from re-selling the content. |
