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I'm curious how something like transferring to another service would work. The other service has a cost to endure per item, too (CDN costs, etc). It would seem
by Operyl 8y ago
I'm curious how something like transferring to another service would work. The other service has a cost to endure per item, too (CDN costs, etc). It would seem unreasonable not to compensate the new "host". Do we have a fee to transfer from, say, Amazon Videos to iTunes of 10-15% of the market rate for the content?
EDIT: yeesh, downvotes galore for something I figured only made economical sense ..
- sokoloff 8y agoThe CDN and storage costs are close enough to $0 that I think they could fairly safely be ignored in light of the river of money flowing to those licensing content.
- Operyl 8y agoDeveloping, support, and other costs are not $0. I'm all for portability, but I'm also for compensation to keep it working smoothly..
- colejohnson66 8y agoSo what the prison should do is take a hit for their mess up and compensate the new service so everyone can keep their music.
- Operyl 8y agoIn this case, yes, I was generalizing the future in general.
- UncleEntity 8y agoIn theory the content provider has already been paid so the main cost would be a simple database import IMHO. Though if I were the company who just lost such a juicy contract I'd tell them to go pound sand when they asked for a database dump.
- Operyl 8y agoI'm referring to more than just this case. In the future, if I purchased from Amazon a movie, and I transferred it to iTunes, how did iTunes get paid? They didn't.
- stordoff 8y agoCould they not just accept it as a cost of doing business? If I can transfer my library to iTunes, I'm more likely to spend money with them in the future.