This is the third article in this series entitled: The Economics of Video Entertainment Part 1 Here Part 2 Here For the last couple of days I’ve been leading up to talking about the individual value proposition as to why people purchase, watch, read or listen to certain types of content. Hedonic pricing [...]
Ministers are flying home after negotiating the ACTA agreement, which very soon may not be required.It would appear that there is some experimentation being conducted that very soon could moot the very reason for ACTA. Finally, we are seeing the Content creation companies figure out how to commercialise their products on the P2P networks. [...]
When I was four years old, my family constructed a house. I asked my father how the builders knew what went where. And he told me about the plans and showed me the blueprints. I was enthralled, here was a method to build something. Draw up a master plan, order the lumber, roofing iron, and [...]
“D” was something to be feared when I was a lad; especially if it was written in red on the top right corner of a homework assignment when it came back from “marking”. The recent Joel Tenenbaum case in the USA may have backfired in a bigger way than any previous litigation activity undertaken [...]
If you have read Part 1, downloaded and watched the movie – we are ready to explore part 2 if not – then you won’t understand half of the following; We now know about the economic hitmen which are basically the first line of defense – who go in to corrupt foreign government leaders. [...]
I am reading a fascinating book. It is called “The Age Of The Unthinkable – why the new world disorder constantly surprises us and what to do about it”. Written by Joshua Cooper Ramo. This book is like the Tipping Point (if you read that) of national security. Ramo discusses the way that in the [...]
Residents of the Antipodies (that’s Australia for people in England – New Zealand for the Spanish and somewhere else for people in the USA) are used to being the forgotten race. Our claim to fame is the Kangaroo, the Kiwi and a cute little marsupial misnamed “Bear”, the Koala. OK, we also play a [...]
In the beginning were the shorts, black and white flickering images that were initially shown as part of vaudeville shows, fairgrounds or carnivals. Audiences soon needed larger theaters to watch screens with projected images from Vitascopes after the turn of the century, using opera houses, music halls and converted churches that showed silent one-reeler's (a [...]
The Swedish High Court has sentenced four men behind The Pirate Bay (TPB), to jail. On Twitter today Peter Sunde said: “Nothing will happen to TPB, this is just theatre for the media.” We got the news last night that we lost. It used to be only movies, now even verdicts are out before [...]
This morning my colleague Chris Gilbey and I had one of these heated philosophical discussions on the topic of who lobbied whom first for the digital rights distribution of music. I claimed that it was the music industry that clubbed Apple into submission and Chris stated that it was Jobs who had the foresight [...]