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It sounds like the broadcast TV industry needs to update its business model to deal with new technology and new market realities. Not that this is news to anyo
by betterunix 14y ago
It sounds like the broadcast TV industry needs to update its business model to deal with new technology and new market realities. Not that this is news to anyone.
- rayiner 14y agoAs a practical matter, if the broadcast TV folks can't protect their content directly, they'll have to go the way of the Googles and Facebooks of the world, and figure out ways of spying on you and your kids' TV watching habits so they can figure out ever more elaborate ways of selling you and them cheap plastic crap manufactured in China. That's what "updating your business model" means in 2013.
- ZeroGravitas 14y agoThey figures that out in the 80s. It was called Transformers.
- betterunix 14y agoOr they could go to a subscription model. To be honest, when it comes to entertainment I see little problem with paywalls (unlike news, academic publications, etc.).