The F-14 did the same thing when it was first deployed until Tom Cruise got ahold of it. Once he did it was arguably the best carrier-borne air superiority aircraft of all time.
Fixed that for ya.
But they have to pay for all the production, shipping, packing, etc... costs for a second copy of the game as well. So at the end of the day the net gain is more or less zero.
Unless they go through Steam or the like, in which case they just say "On sale NOW for $30!" Consumers get a massive discount, albeit with no chance of reselling their game. The developer gets their cut of the sale, and doesn't have to pay a dime for packing, shipping, etc.
This is what I love about Steam- there are frequently discounts and I never have to worry about not being able to install my games (until Valve goes out of business, hopefully in a long time).
To be honest, the point of traditional radio stations seems to me that you can listen to X genre in Y area. With internet radio, Y no longer matters, and for many stations like Pandora and Last.fm neither does X, as they offer many different genres. Why do we need a large station like last.fm alongside a smaller internet radio station? What can the small one offer that the larger cannot if they are both free?
These aren't rhetorical questions- If anyone prefers a smaller station to a larger I'd like to know why.
With your bare hands?!?