Quote: Originally Posted by LordSimen Your logic would drive software companies out of business. Canonical, Google, Mozilla and many others would disagree. There are lots of free software companies that show profit. EDIT: And IBM, Novell, Oracle, Progress Software, Red Hat, Sun. Take Google Earth for example: There's a webversion, Google maps. It's free for everyone.
Then there's a software version, Google Earth. That's free.
Then there's the paid versions of Google Earth. They cost money and have additional features. I think movies should work the same way. Digital distribuition (480p) - free for everyone but with various options:
- Streaming movies: constant server requirement (costs money), so the content would be free but ad-based (like The Daily Show or The Colbert Report);
- Downloaded movies: requires a one-time access to the server (costs money), so free with an ad-based download manager (something like Steam, for example);
- P2P (via torrents) shared movies: absolutely free Physical distribuition - paid
- Movies with additional features: higher quality (1080p), a case and disc, artwork, extras |