Subscription and rental were thought for physical objects. Digital copies are quite different animals. You cannot perpetuate the same model with digital copies. And if you want to do it, then you have to give digital copies users the same rights that with physical objects. 2013/10/4 Mark Watson <watsonm@netflix.com> > > > > On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 12:01 PM, Emmanuel Revah <stsil@manurevah.com>wrote: > >> Bonjour Karl, >> >> >> >> >> On 2013/10/04 16:38, Karl Dubost wrote: >> >>> Let's try to reply. Making questions to hide affirmation is never a >>> good way to have peaceful discussion ;) >>> >>> Emmanuel Revah [2013-10-04T09:10]: >>> >>>> Why is that finding a better "thing" is considered as the only way to >>>> avoid W3C's recommendation of EME ? >>>> >>> >>> So basically, content owners currently uses a business model that is >>> working for them. I'm not judging if it's a good or a bad business >>> model at that point. It's just a fact. >>> >> >> >> Actually, I would tend to think it's yes and no. Yes it works for them, >> up to now it's been working great. But no, it's probably not a good >> business model for the near future. (In short, they need to move the web, >> and fast, or risk extinction.) > > > Could you elaborate on exactly what business models you think fall into > the category and why ? Particularly, I'm wondering if you think > subscription and rental models are obsolete and if so why ? > > ...Mark > > >> >> >
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