Media industry is a good example of conservative and reluctant attitude towards change. They are spending tons of money and media publicity for protecting their old business model. Still, they have to gradually admit that the resistance will not make the reality vanish away. Digital media formats are coming and already popular around the world. The old profitable model of making highly priced physical containers for media and audio is breaking down. It's hard to convince consumers to buy cds & DVDs for serious bucks when those can be distributed and copied for nothing.
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Posted at May 7, 2003 04:08 PM