Scarcity Is A Shitty Business Model

Re:Scarcity Is A Shitty Business Model by sjs on Sunday January 15, 2012 @12:46PM (#3467686)

> We would have paid good money to watch Sherlock Holmes or Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. But it simply was not an option. So we went with a TV show that was free and then went to bed.

Free? Surely Fred has paid for his cable subscription. And paid dearly if he has any HD channels. And then there are the loud, terrible, annoying commercials.

It costs at least $50/month to get anything half decent on cable TV here in BC. More if you want HD stuff. Many folks I know spend about $100/month on cable.

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Re:Scarcity Is A Shitty Business Model by ddagradi on Sunday January 15, 2012 @12:54PM (#3467715)

"Free" is the perception though. Nobody is arguing the merits of a cable subscription. The content is already piped into his house per a contract he signed, so it's there and it's "free".

There is, however, no sum of money - no matter how large - that he can give to the film industry to watch an already released movie in the comfort of his own home.

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