September 12, 2007 – 10:46 am
Will Green has created a listing of word-wide prices for a few Apple products and a comparison on their cost to US Customers. I was wondering about this myself recently. So it was nice to see. Of course, the reason for these differences is that Apple is an America company and the prices for the [...]
August 31, 2007 – 10:23 am
On the heels of iTunes getting rid of DRM in music NBC says they want more. NBC would also like to re-negotiate pricing and bundle shows. So far NBC has declined to renew its contract with Apple.
First issue: pricing. The pricing is fine. No one else really thinks it is too much or too little. [...]
By jon
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Also posted in boneheads, mac, technology
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Tagged apple, download tv shows, drm, itunes, mac, nbc, nbc wants people to stop buying tv shows, pirates, tv
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Some prisoners tried to get themselves out of jail by abusing copyright. They ended up in trouble of course, but one of the things they got in trouble for was extortion. It is hard to imagine how that might stick considering the prisoners are using the same system that “patent holders” are using on a [...]
There’s a hard case for saying capitalism still exists in America. Calling our market a free one is like saying a cage-free chicken is honestly free. The irony is that it is the market leaders (often ones who clamor for deregulation) are the ones that are steering America’s market towards a feudal system.
The linchpin in [...]
By jon
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Also posted in politics, technology
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Tagged america, american economy, business, capitalism, copyright, dmca, economy, feudal economy, feudalism, intellectual property, patent hoarding, patents, protectionism
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