If they had only allowed you to buy it at $1 an episode without DRM, most people would probably go for that. Not all of them, but I think most of them.

4mil downloads per ep * 10 episodes * $1 - 15% who still won't pay is about 35 million.

Maybe $40 mil of $45 mil if they charged more per episode. That's money they could have had that's just.... gone.

Facebook is what people use their Smart Phones for! When Facebook needs a new revenue stream it can extract money from Verizon and AT&T for letting their users access it with mobile devices.

It's still burns gasoline.

The advantage of electric is that you have the option of generating your electricity using the cheapest, best, most efficient means possible.

Of course, the disadvantage of electric is that we haven't been making electric cars for 100 years, we've been making gas ones. So the gas ones will be simpler, cheaper, and likely more reliable.

What microsoft would do is treat service packs as a new version. Thus, SP1 would come out 5 years after XP. SP2 5 years after that. To some degree, this is good. It forces companies to keep improving. You could use an un-patched version of Windows for free, but you'd have to pay for the bug fixes.

Actually, I think our economy is only afloat as much as it is because China holds so much debt. They have to prop up the dollar because, if the dollar collapses, all the debt that they hold becomes essentially worthless.

I stand corrected.

I'm thinking that, in the end, nobody really comes out ahead in these tit-for-tat lawsuits.

DRM is so easy to remove from ebooks that it's really not much of an inconvenience. Downloaded music DRM used to be a bit more difficult and more restrictive. And don't get me started about the ridiculousness of DRM on digital movies.
On the other hand, people who copy works illegally are generally not ever going to be customers. I'm guessing that DRM cost the publisher money in licensing fees, and wasn't effective at all in stopping copying, so it makes good business sense to drop it.

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They need to get away from peer reviewed journals entirely and switch to a slashdot-style moderation system.

Then papers will be acknowledged or disregarded solely based on their abstracts, with no one actually reading TFA, as they should be.

Yes. You are the only one.