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I was fund-raising for a metered content play (DRM, I guess we'd call it now) in the fall of 94. You wouldn't have to pay tens of thousands of dollars for data
by ci5er 10y ago
I was fund-raising for a metered content play (DRM, I guess we'd call it now) in the fall of 94. You wouldn't have to pay tens of thousands of dollars for data subscriptions on CD-ROMS, you could buy an article for $10 or $100 at a time. And, who knows? In the future - when this Internet thing takes off - and distribution is "free" - maybe people will pay a nickel to listen to a song they copied from their friend!
All I got back was: "What's the Internet?"
This was about a year after I left Motorola, for failing to be able to sell them on how content distribution between portable super-computers with built in wireless data modems was going to change the world. sigh. Oh, well. I guess they paid the price for their lack of vision! :-)