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by danielweber 5040 days ago
"Digital distribution" aren't magic words that make the production costs go away. In fact, they make production costs the most expensive part of the whole proposition.

Business 1 produces content and sells it in one venue. Business 2 takes all of business 1's content and sells it in another venue. And people are wondering why business 1 cannot just use business 2's model instead.

I don't believe that people here are really so dense as to not understand the problems with that scenario.

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I don't believe that people here are really so dense as to not understand the problems with that scenario

Nor do I believe that you are so dense as to conflate copying with theft, so can we dispense with the comparisons that wouldn't look out of place in *AA propaganda?