Scarcity Is A Shitty Business Model

Re:Scarcity Is A Shitty Business Model by ddagradi on Sunday January 15, 2012 @12:49PM (#3467694)

I'd pay top-dollar to rent a movie while it's still in theaters (especially in lieu of a low-quality, pirated option). If the rental price decreases as the film leaves theaters, they could still maintain a strong sense of the value of their product. It looks like it's working perfectly well in an ecosystem like Steam, where a new release sells a truckload at $60, then again at $30, then again at during a firesale at $5.

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Re:Scarcity Is A Shitty Business Model by moe on Sunday January 15, 2012 @01:40PM (#3467834)

I'd pay top-dollar to rent a movie while it's still in theaters (especially in lieu of a low-quality, pirated option)

A thousand times yes.

I have an AppleTV and would love to use it more. Sadly most movies arrive on the torrents months before apple adds them to their store. I just don't want to wait that long.

To add insult to injury most downloads on AppleTV are more expensive than the BlueRay and are plagued with infuriating restrictions; no HD on the download-version, or no download version at all. Sometimes there's even no HD version at all...

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Re:Scarcity Is A Shitty Business Model by ddagradi on Sunday January 15, 2012 @02:27PM (#3467971)

months before apple adds them to their store

Months before Apple is allowed to add them to their store, you mean. The same goes for Netflix and Amazon Prime.

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Re:Scarcity Is A Shitty Business Model by moe on Sunday January 15, 2012 @02:41PM (#3468007)

That's irrelevant to me as a customer.

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