Seth

Will the Internet Harm Media's Major Players?

Thanks Scott. Appreciate the feedback.

I completely agree with you on point two. The ala carte ability to buy single songs instead of being forced to a full album is a major distinction I didn't include and should have... next time around, I guess.

On the nit over bypassing encryption, I partly agree there too. It's true, for those who choose to do it, it's not that hard to bypass the DRM on videos. And you're right it only has to happen once before it’s out there. On the other hand, the size of feature length video files requires anybody copying/moving/recodin... them from DVD work through issues of compression, bandwidth and computing power. That’s especially true if they want to re-encode to a DVD they can use with their television. It’ll take software and time. Are those challenges much of a blockade? Probably not. But viewing it in the context of what can be done on "main street" versus by the "tech savvy" leads me to think that added difficulty has some value to the broader debate. How much value though? Not sure.