Re: HTML5 and DRM - A Middle Path?

I don't agree, and don't know if it's a cultural issue or probably just me,
but I honestly thinks that the prize, in a true free market, is given by
the buyer, not the seller. Problem is, that if you can't negociate with the
buyer, and there are not any other distributor, then as I said it has been
created a situation of artificial scarcity and monopoly. In a true free
market and liberal capitalism (the one that USA is proud to be their
biggest example... at least theoretically) piracy would be highly praised
because it's able to offer the cheapest alternative to get a valued good,
and has proven to be a sostainable model. I know that other companies can
compete on this, so their only alternative is to add other thing that give
a value to the product that would make sense to pay for, and that the other
cheapest alternative (piracy) can't be able to offer: the so called "added
value". Trying to offer the same product at a higher price without an added
value that compensate the extra cost it's suicidal, you will lost before to
start, and trying to erase the "competence" is unethical and up to some
point comdemned in every economic model.
El 19/08/2013 20:07, "David Singer" <singer@apple.com> escribió:

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> On Aug 19, 2013, at 11:00 , "piranna@gmail.com" <piranna@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > > If it's over-priced, then don't buy it. If it's sold in a form you
> don't like, don't buy it. That's a free market.
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> > It's not a free market since the product I'm interested to buy is not in
> the conditions I need, there are no other distributors and more important
> there are no other alternatives. The fact that you can buy a disk from
> other artist don't have anything to do with the fact that you want to
> listen to one particular artist, and this kind of uni-directional
> statements and mandates about when, how and about what amount are this
> products distributed based and creating an artificial scarcity is not a
> valid example of free market, but instead of a monopoly.
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> Well, the artist wants to charge you to listen to his music.  If you don't
> like the price, don't listen. None of us have any 'right' to dictate the
> price the owner sets.  And it is this (the content value) that sets the
> cost, for the most part -- online, LPs, CDs, cassettes -- it doesn't matter
> the form.
>
> David Singer
> Multimedia and Software Standards, Apple Inc.
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