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Is money over?

Name: Anonymous 2006-04-23 19:46

If I was a billionaire, I would buy the rights to tons of books, television series, movies, anime, manga, comics, and music in order to localize and sell them to the masses in collected box sets.  Yet with the Internet, even the most obscure media can be distributed freely, with no rights to purchase, and no costs for the viewer.  The value of everything becomes zero, with the only cost being the internet connection and the computer and storage media.  The cost is in downloading, but the media itself is free. 

The Internet allows the trading of costless goods-  A "free" economy in which everything is free, except the service of the Internet itself.  Perhaps the days of legally selling things in retail outlets is over.  Who needs an official release of obscure series #437 when you can get it without effort or cost?  Especially when it may be better translated, in better quality, or have no censorship.  And localizing an obscure fan favorite can always backfire with dismal sales, bankrupting the company because only sixty fans bought the product.

The idea of acquiring the rights to everything and selling them for the sake of being available may become outdated, when everything will truly become available to everyone, with no price barrier.  Of course the law will step in someday, but it will always be circumvented. 

Name: John 2006-04-23 20:29

This is why capitalism is wonderful. If you are the type of person who would do such idiotic things with their money, ain't no way in hell you'd become a billionaire unless you inherited it, and if you did inherit it, ain't no way in hell you'd stay one. (And just for the record, only 2% of millionaires in the USA inherited their money...) People, and I mean democrats and liberals in particular, want to continuously complain to the uneducated masses that the rich keep getting richer while the poor keep getting poorer in this country, but why is this really happening? The rich keep doing the things that made them rich in the first place, while the poor keep doing the things and decide to stay in the situations that either made them or kept them poor in the first place. And why do they keep doing this? The ones that got it down, got it down, and they'll continue to succeed. And the people that stay poor? They're either unmotivated, don't have the necessary education, which you can pretty much blame our government run and funded schools for, or in very few cases that are irrelevant to the point I'm making, are poor because they are either physically or mentally handicapped. Other than that, you pretty much have no place to be complaining.

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