Firms haggle over video on demand

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

How sure can I be that my credit card info is really secure if I use  
them? djf


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From: Dewayne Hendricks <dewayne () warpspeed com>
Date: November 30, 2005 10:00:47 PM EST
To: Dewayne-Net Technology List <dewayne-net () warpspeed com>
Subject: [Dewayne-Net] re: Firms haggle over video on demand
Reply-To: dewayne () warpspeed com

[Note:  This comment comes from reader Steve Schear.  DLH]

> From: Steve Schear <s.schear () comcast net>
> Date: November 29, 2005 8:47:46 PM PST
> To: "Dewayne-Net Technology List" <dewayne-net () warpspeed com>
> Subject: Re: [Dewayne-Net] re: Firms haggle over video on demand
>
>
> > > From: Thomas Leavitt <thomas () thomasleavitt org>
> > > Date: November 27, 2005 10:12:02 PM PST
> > > To: dewayne () warpspeed com
> > > Subject: Re: [Dewayne-Net] Firms haggle over video on demand
>
>
> > > ***Music industry insiders who view iTunes $0.99 per tune pricing
> > > as an
> > > annoying ceiling, might instead be wise to thank Steve Jobs for  
> > > making
> > > it a floor... the "single-price" model prevents the music industry
> > > from
> > > cutting its own throat via price competition.
>
> Its worse than that for the music industry as there is unauthorized  
> but apparently legal (at least for the moment) price competition.   
> Take a look at http://www.allofmp3.com. Tracks from over 25,000  
> albums available in a wide variety of user-selectable encoding  
> formats and data rates priced at $0.02/MB.
>
> Steve

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