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Comment Re:Physical media is dead (Score 1) 49

The point being, the console manufacturers will soon stop physical media altogether, issuing game consoles that don't even have drives, and the PC side of things will go the same direction.

From that point on, it'll be download or nothing, you pay the price they dictate and you pay it directly to them, and you'll not be buying the game - you'll be paying to rent it for as long as they decide you should be able to.

Comment Re:The Winner Must Die (Score 1) 31

Most feel it won't be worth trying to compete with Amazon Marketplace, which is filled with overseas suppliers selling goods that are often counterfeit and always being offered at prices they can't match.

Consumers that are online are online because they are price sensitive or because they can't find what they want locally. A small business doesn't typically compete on price or selection, they compete on relationship, service, presenting a unique local option, or a desire for a few consumers to do business in their community. Amazon isn't the place for them.

Comment Re:Didn't read TFL (Score 1) 141

A law like this will not really help customers. The cable companies will just make the a la carte channels prohibitively expensive, or they'll charge fees on top enough to prevent people from getting only the channels they want on the cheap.

They're clinging to an outmoded business model. Consumers are making their choice to move away from cable, and their only hope is to win in the courts to prevent consumers having any choices beyond the 2 or 3 they offer.

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