Maybe you don't understand. Back in the old days, we released works on the medium of the day,8-track, shellac, vinyl, cassette,tape, betamax, vhs, cartridge, cd, minidisc, digital television, dvd, blu-ray, hd-dvd and every time we instigated a change of medium, we made you buy a new license. We loved that.
Now that everything's gone all digi-ma-watchamcallit, we're screwed. The one medium we never got our heads round, and licensed before you all got your grubby hands on it was the interweb, based on hard-drive thingamibobs. Hard-drives are bad! They last a long time and even have redundancy and they're universal.
We could offer cheap upgrades, when we change format; ie you bring back your old vhs and we offer you a shiny dvd for a small fee, or perhaps even when your cd becomes unreadable, you can bring it back for a replacement, again at a reasonable price, but we really love how you all keep coming back and paying full price for a new license on our new medium.
So we're still gonna insist that every time there is a format change, that you buy a new license, rather than saying, look, buy a license for said piece of work and it's your to keep forever and watch/listen to whenever and however you like.
After all, we fully understand that you all have enough disposable income to buy every piece of work that you wish to in your lifetime, over and over again.
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Maybe you don't understand. Back in the old days, we released works on the medium of the day,8-track, shellac, vinyl, cassette,tape, betamax, vhs, cartridge, cd, minidisc, digital television, dvd, blu-ray, hd-dvd and every time we instigated a change of medium, we made you buy a new license. We loved that.
Now that everything's gone all digi-ma-watchamcallit, we're screwed. The one medium we never got our heads round, and licensed before you all got your grubby hands on it was the interweb, based on hard-drive thingamibobs. Hard-drives are bad! They last a long time and even have redundancy and they're universal.
We could offer cheap upgrades, when we change format; ie you bring back your old vhs and we offer you a shiny dvd for a small fee, or perhaps even when your cd becomes unreadable, you can bring it back for a replacement, again at a reasonable price, but we really love how you all keep coming back and paying full price for a new license on our new medium.
So we're still gonna insist that every time there is a format change, that you buy a new license, rather than saying, look, buy a license for said piece of work and it's your to keep forever and watch/listen to whenever and however you like.
After all, we fully understand that you all have enough disposable income to buy every piece of work that you wish to in your lifetime, over and over again.