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    Right in
    San
    Francisco
    Jul 31 09:06 AM
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    Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News [view article]
    Eli keeps getting better. Between the headline news, the overnight foreign markets, the earnings reports, and the day's economic calendar, what more material could a reader want? One hopes that Eli doesn't get dragged into the trap of doing a lot of analysis. Reply
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    mrbill for V
    Jul 31 07:25 AM
    Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News [view article]
    Eli, great to see you i was wondering who the editor was, let's
    hear from you more often.     Reply
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    K. Lewis
    Jul 30 05:26 PM
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    Music Downloads: You Can't Regulate One Industry and Leave Another Alone [view article]
    The many forms of this problem and the attempted solutions are, to me, wildly entertaining to watch as a student of business and marketing in mass media. The only certainty I can predict is that the consumer will ultimately win. The content controllers who survive and prosper will be the ones smart enough to pan for gold in the stream rather trying to build dams and levies to fight a losing battle against nature. As a songwriter, musician, and independent label owner, I'll be spreading the net far and wide to be sure my content is available whenever and where ever people look for it. Sometimes the folks looking won't want to pay and I'm sure they'll find a way to partake without doing so. That's part of doing business in a changing digital landscape if you ask me. It's only my problem if the seeker who's willing to pay can't find my work. For the folks intent on theft, I'll leave that up to karma. Reply
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    Brewer
    Jul 28 11:24 AM
    Comscore's Top 50 Websites for June; Travel & Leisure Categories Gain [view article]
    You think the MSFT visitors were looking to BUY something or FIX something? :-) Reply
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    Scott Berry
    Jul 28 11:10 AM
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    Music Downloads: You Can't Regulate One Industry and Leave Another Alone [view article]
    I'm with Fred here. Content providers can solve their problems by providing what their customers want, instead of forcing them to buy things they don't. (This applies to supplying singles vs. albums, and single episodes of TV shows vs. paying $50 or more to get a "season".)

    It's unfortunate that it's taking piracy to get media firms to see that truth. Most other industries figure that out on their own via competition (and let's face it, piracy is just a form of competition here.)

    As for the iTune burn/rip two-step, yes it can be done but it's a huge pain. Instead of a choice between restricted transfer and a major hassle, how about just selling the music without either?     Reply
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    ktwalrus
    Jul 26 07:42 PM
    Music Downloads: You Can't Regulate One Industry and Leave Another Alone [view article]
    Don't let iTune's DRM stop you from doing the right thing. You can always burn your songs to CD and rip them back if you really need to. Reply
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    jerry-va
    Jul 25 04:52 AM
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    Music Downloads: You Can't Regulate One Industry and Leave Another Alone [view article]
    I would like to pay the artist or his widow for great old hits I still have from Napster's heyday. How would you suggest we dis-intermediate the music industry? Reply
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    GSlusher
    Jul 24 12:09 PM
    Music Downloads: You Can't Regulate One Industry and Leave Another Alone [view article]
    Interesting that the author admits to behavior that, in some countries (e.g., the US), may be a crime punishable by fine and/or jail, not to mention a civil tort. (When you download via Bit Torrent, you may also be "publishing" copyright files because of the way Bit Torrent works.)

    As for playing iTunes Store music on devices other than iPods, Fred seems to be behind the times, ignorant or deceptive. One can LEGALLY burn CDs from a "playlist" on iTunes, including songs purchased through the iTunes Store, as has been the case since the iTunes Store was opened.     Reply
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    Jon T
    Jul 24 10:40 AM
    Music Downloads: You Can't Regulate One Industry and Leave Another Alone [view article]
    Quite right.

    This British Government goes off half-cocked at every opportunity. It's quite unbelievable.

    And if they do do this, what comes next, books, film and every other type of digital consumable?

    The mess we in, and it could be far worse without the efforts of Apple's iTunes (5 billion songs and counting) is entirely due to the backwardness and greed of the music labels. Having made the mess they want to resort to legislation, and what government is more willing to issue legislation on anything that moves than this one?     Reply
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    The Shepherd
    Jul 21 05:08 PM
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    The End of Broadcast TV Nears [view article]
    I don't understand why the stockholders don't demand more from TV executives. Sort of reminds me of General Motors, "We just need to market the product right, more gas hogs, more Hummers". TV is a vast wasteland, I too say, "Let it die". I canceled my satellite service in 2002 and have been TV free since then. Reply
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    myteev
    Jul 21 03:54 PM
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    Cable vs Online Video: Who's Winning? [view article]
    I believe the 'nail in the coffin" for network television is when CDN's and sites like hulu (NBC, FOX) develop high end shows just for the online comunity (internet) and then later newtork TV will syndicate from the CDN. Reply
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    Not
    surprised
    Jul 21 02:56 PM
    The End of Broadcast TV Nears [view article]
    Like the movie studios, the networks have become divisions of very large multi-national corporations with many other interests.Each division must show substantial profits or else. The result is the production of least common denominator tv and films notwithstanding the abysmal content of the product.TAKE NO RISKS in the choice of material.I write this as a former film producer and studio executive of many years standing. Reply
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    Nigel
    Shiftright
    Jul 21 02:19 PM
    The End of Broadcast TV Nears [view article]
    What a great article! As an engineer that deals with broadcasters and networks, I learned several years ago that with minor exceptions, the technology and programming are irrelevent to management. They don't want to pay for anything unless it interrupts the flow of the commercials. Good enough is good enough. Redundancy? Nobody's watching our digital anyways. 2009 is going to be a lot of fun. Reply
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    User 190816
    Jul 21 10:12 AM
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    The End of Broadcast TV Nears [view article]
    another in the long long line of shock columnists pronouncing the death of broadcast TV. but i have to say this is the first time i've read in the same article the solution is the same = broadcast TV.

    you can't have it both ways. which is it? (here's a hint: see your own line about "people don't have an Internet room in the house")

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    CT
    Programmer
    Jul 21 08:49 AM
    The End of Broadcast TV Nears [view article]
    Good article, but I think your "big show" type of thinking won't go far anymore with TV, or any other media for that matter. I'm 40, and when we were kids there were basically 4 or 5 channels to watch. You still watched on days when, if you had been the program director, shows were on that you wouldn't necessarily put on. Sure, there were really good shows on. But if there had been adequate competition, would you really have watched one of the big three networks during prime time? How many half-hour shows had good ratings just because they were plugged in between the good half-hour show at 8pm and the good show at 9pm? "Good" content is relative. People say that there are 200 channels on cable and nothing to watch, but the reality is that out of those 200 channels they may be interested in about 10 of them, but someone else would pick 10 different channels. Media is now spread out amongst a vast array of programming that can't possibly hope to attract the huge audiences of the past because not everyone is interested in the same thing. Your Superbowl analogy is an anomaly. I wasn't one of those millions of viewers because I can't stand football. You put on nothing but football on TV and you're lost me entirely. What will save the big media companies is to continue to buy up the little channels, but keep the targeted programming. Look at how many cable channels NBC owns now. The ad revenues will be lower for any given channel, because the audience is smaller, but the scale of the entire multi-channel operation will provide the revenues.

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