[Sigia-l] blame canada ;]

[Jonathan Baker-Bates]

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> From: sigia-l-admin at asis.org [mailto:sigia-l-admin at asis.org] 
> On Behalf Of Eryk Orlowski
> Sent: 09 July 2004 14:06
> To: 'SIGIA-L'
> Subject: RE: [Sigia-l] blame canada ;]
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> Publishers say its only 
> the matter of time to negotiate some agreements with isps. 
> Unfortunately for the users, it is also the matter of time to 
> expand content access payments. Does anybody know about 
> similar ideas - income sharing between isp and publishers?

Well, it's been happening for a few years in the mobile communications
space, but that's because the technological and market structure is very
different and feeds into that business model pretty well. The only place I
know where it's like that on the web is AOL, which can only do it because
it's users are effectively on an intranet, and they have enough users to
make income sharing deals with publishers attractive. 

Despite the odd gain here and there, I think publishers are going to be
fighting an increasingly uphill battle when it comes to making their money
out of digital media though. But that's not just my opinion, it may be
Microsoft's as well:

http://crypto.stanford.edu/DRM2002/darknet5.doc

See also this interesting talk Cory Doctorow on DRM:

http://www.commonhouse.net/wiki/drm/FrontPage

Jonathan



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