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What Media Companies Need To Start Doing

Marco Ament talking about media piracy :

Relying solely on yelling about what’s right isn’t a pragmatic approach for the media industry to take. And it’s not working. It’s unrealistic and naïve to expect everyone to do the “right” thing when the alternative is so much easier, faster, cheaper, and better for so many of them.

The pragmatic approach is to address the demand.

Again, the best way of combating piracy is by making it an undesirable alternative to buying the content legitimately. People don’t care about “release dates,” they want the content when they want it. You can either capitalize on that customer as early as you can or lose sales to piracy.

via Right versus pragmatic – Marco.org.

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Marco Ament Reviews The Kindle Fire

Marco Ament:

I expected the Kindle Fire to be a compelling iPad alternative, but I can’t call it delightful, fun, or pleasant to use. Quite the opposite, actually: using the Fire is frustrating and unpleasant, and it feels like work.

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via A human review of the Kindle Fire – Marco.org.