[2259] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Barry Shein)
Mon Feb 3 11:19:23 1992
Date: Mon, 3 Feb 92 11:13:55 -0500
From: bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein)
To: jcurran@NNSC.NSF.NET
Cc: smart@mel.dit.csiro.au, com-priv@psi.com, nnsc@NNSC.NSF.NET
In-Reply-To: jcurran@NNSC.NSF.NET's message of Mon, 03 Feb 92 09:20:55 -0500 <9202031428.AA02023@psi.com>
If the publishers et al sit and wait for a technological solution to
copying they'll lose. Rather than lose some percentage of revenue to
copying they get to lose 100% of revenue while they wring their hands.
This is a market for the daring, not the cautious.
I am sure a similar conversation occurred when someone proposed to
broadcast music free over the radio waves. What a preposterous idea
that was!
-Barry Shein
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