From: Mike Linksvayer (ml@gondwanaland.com)
Date: Sat Mar 30 2002 - 00:33:27 MST
On Fri, 2002-03-29 at 22:21, Samantha Atkins wrote:
> There is also a drawback which is really an opportunity in
> finding new ways to fund the creation and creators of
> information and entertainment subject to digital information
> characteristics.
[...]
> There is likely to be
> far less reason for much of the publishing industry in books and
> music going forward. Some aspects of the production and
> distribution of movies will also change. But it hardly follows
> that we will not have music or movies if we don't preserve the
> old rules.
Those involved in industries that currently rely on the excludability of
information don't see much opportunity, but such exists. Rather than
attempting to stop technology which makes copying easy, creative
companies and individuals will invent new entertainment products with an
excludable component. These products will be enabled by technology
similar to that which is rendering old products non-excludable.
Prediction: online gaming/artificial worlds of many genres will make
more money for the studios or equivalent companies than linear movies
ever did. Sometime before the singularity. :)
Mike Linksvayer
http://gondwanaland.com/ml/
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