From: Robert Comer 

I fail to see how you think this is a good thing with the bittorent model
today -- if the people sponsoring these shows that are shared widely don't
see any income, they are going to stop sponsoring things like that and then
the makers of the episodes will stop making them because they don't get any
income either.

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Bob Comer


On Sun, 3 Jun 2007 10:37:04 -0400, "Geo."  wrote:

>"mike"  wrote in message
>news:9bv263pa7nnrgnl4bsffv9no0qe3no1co0{at}4ax.com...
>
>>>He should do a little market research before playing.
>>
>> Perhaps he did, and he is not going after the techie/hobbyist market
>> that you are in, but the larger non-techie market.
>
>Todays techie/hobbyist market is tomorrows main stream market..
>
>I started downloading television series off the internet over 2 years ago
>and today it's already become so popular that it's clearly headed to become
>mainstream (I regularly max out my 6mb line downloading because so many
>people are sharing). Nobody realizes the size of it though because folks had
>to go underground to avoid the RIAA/MPAA shutting down their networks. Today
>the market is hundreds of private groups of 2-5000 or so  linked together
>mostly in bittorrent networks with private membership web forums providing
>the links.
>
>I can prove it too. Look at the numbers for television markets, they have
>significantly declined.
>
>Good shows that non-newbie computer users watch have fallen off the charts
>because this market segment has already switched. It's the reason shows like
>survivor and desperate housewives lead the ratings and the most pirated
>shows are falling behind in ratings.
>
>Call up some of your old friends and ask them to look at their rating
>numbers in this light and see if it doesn't prove true.
>
>Tivo is on the way out because it's too restrictive in that you can't do
>archiving, editing, or sharing, and this is what Jobs was aiming at. But the
>heavy users have already moved (it's like how DSL was adopted). For this to
>go completely mainstream the only thing required is for the hardware world
>to realize the demand for players like the linktheater/terastation is there
>and waiting.
>
>BTW I found out why buffalo is dropping the PAL version of the linktheater,
>they are concentrating on taking the tivo market. Cisco is headed the same
>way with the KISS players and RCA is working on this as well. Won't be long.
>
>Geo.

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