http://www.antitrustreview.com/archives/1309 News and commentary about antitrust, economics, technology, policy Thu, 20 Nov 2008 16:16:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2 http://www.antitrustreview.com/archives/1309#comment-13772 Hanno Kaiser Fri, 14 Mar 2008 17:14:35 +0000 http://www.antitrustreview.com/archives/1309#comment-13772 <p>That's a very valid point, Geoff, particularly with respect to digital goods in a pure sales model, where rights holders and potential infringers have the same access to the means of distribution. But keep in mind that the pure sales model (i.e., I get an exclusive copy and pay $ for it) is increasingly only one of many revenue streams fueled by increased distribution. For service, support, upgrade, and otherwise "performance"-related revenues, it doesn't matter whether distribution is "authorized" or not.</p> That’s a very valid point, Geoff, particularly with respect to digital goods in a pure sales model, where rights holders and potential infringers have the same access to the means of distribution. But keep in mind that the pure sales model (i.e., I get an exclusive copy and pay $ for it) is increasingly only one of many revenue streams fueled by increased distribution. For service, support, upgrade, and otherwise “performance”-related revenues, it doesn’t matter whether distribution is “authorized” or not.

]]> http://www.antitrustreview.com/archives/1309#comment-13768 geoff Fri, 14 Mar 2008 04:38:28 +0000 http://www.antitrustreview.com/archives/1309#comment-13768 <p>Welcome back, Hanno! An important caveat to what you say (other, of course, than the potential unreliability of the statistics): Chances are that more rapid dissemination is also correlated with easier, more rapid and more effective infringement/copying. Your conclusion that more rapid dissemination supports weakened IPRs may not hold--it would depend which effect predominates.</p> Welcome back, Hanno! An important caveat to what you say (other, of course, than the potential unreliability of the statistics): Chances are that more rapid dissemination is also correlated with easier, more rapid and more effective infringement/copying. Your conclusion that more rapid dissemination supports weakened IPRs may not hold–it would depend which effect predominates.

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