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Posted by dye! on March 13, 2009 with category tags of unnecessary pointless restrictions

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Why would people in Britain watch The Wire on BBC2 (starting only now) when they could have watched from the beginning via iTunes or Hulu ages ago? Would the BBC pay for the rights if this was the case? Who will buy the ads? Only globalised corporations? By erecting artificial walls, what were once geographically separated markets are being maintained. More markets to sell into = more money. It's more efficient to re-sell to local distributors and let them market the product and sell advertising. No work, mo' money. Here is a case where the scale of operations is still much smaller than the potential audience. The first business model that can capture a global audience and sell to that global audience will be rapidly copied. The Olympics/World Cup are the only proto-examples I can think of to date but even these are redistributed from a central body.    → comment by vinny9 (#33) on March 13, 2009 I think the real question is, why would anyone EVER watch BBC 2?    → comment by goodladd (#144) on March 14, 2009 How about "To Hell with Cleverness"?    → comment by chrisdye (#15) on March 16, 2009

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