Some of Hollywood’s movie studios have agreed on technical specifications fpr digital cinema, remember these notes on the business model and value net issues inherent … The move to digital distribution united the studios, which are more accustomed to competing with each other than collaborating. Studios spent more than $631 million in 2003 on film […]
Marc Cuban on the insanities and follies of the music industry, that seems to ignore logic and reason. He is making some nice points there, e.g. Insanity is […] focusing most of your business on selling music to the exact demographic that has the most time to spend on finding free music and most energy […]
Happy Birthday mp3 … ein sehr schöner Artikel in der Zeit zum Jubiläum: Nie werde ich das erste Mal vergessen, als ich so eine Sounddatei […] bekam und mit der Winamp-Software abspielte. Dieses erste Mal werde ich auch nicht vergessen, ich war mehr als erstaunt wie gut sich das anhörte … Interessant ist auch, dass […]
Interesting article in the NYT about the similar problems (and the decline) Detroit and Hollywood are facing … and business model migration. […] it suddenly seems the two industrial capitals have something in common. […] both are discovering that the strategy and tactics that until recently brought them huge profits have led them to re-examine […]
Are Intel and Morgan Freeman’s Revelation Studios aiming to overthrow the old distribution model of the movie business? Offering movies online as soon as they hit theaters looks interesting … the movie release schedule (first theaters, then Pay-Per-View, then DVDs, then TV) is shrinking anyway. ClickStar’s business model may turn out great, even if they […]
A worthwhile and interesting article in the Economist on the Grokster ruling, media industry business model implications and copyright law … For one, it holds that the supreme court’s decision struck what looks like the best available balance under current laws between the claims of media firms, which are battling massive infringements of their copyrights, […]
and may I add that this may turn out to be a pyrrhic victory at best … read some of the reasons at BusinessWeek for one: It was no accident that Grokster and StreamCast were the defendants in this case — they were handpicked by Hollywood because they made the content industry’s case so easy […]
