[Gllug] EU council streaming petition

[Alain Williams]

On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 05:51:48AM +0000, Christopher Hunter wrote:

> That's exactly right.  It probably won't be long before MS start
> charging for each use of their Media Player - "pay-per-use" is
> Microsoft's ultimate aim.  The stream may be "free", but the software to
> watch it will be expensive to use.  

Not so sure, there are 2 'pay per use' scenarios:

1/ pay-per-use of the s/ware. Money goes to the s/ware vendor. I don't
   see this happening. What I suspect is that the s/ware to *generate* the
   format will cost lots of $$, but that to view it will be free.
2/ pay-per-view, you need to pay 10p to view things. The money goes to
   the content generator (who probably has paid much as per (1)).


I suspect that we will get (1) and some (2).

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