[A2k] Krugman in NYTimes on digital media

[Ed Mierzwinski]

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Bits, Bands and books
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/06/opinion/06krugman.html
Excerpt: In 1994, one of those gurus, Esther Dyson, made a striking predict=
ion: that the ease with which digital content can be copied and disseminate=
d would eventually force businesses to sell the results of creative activit=
y cheaply, or even give it away. Whatever the product - software, books, mu=
sic, movies - the cost of creation would have to be recouped indirectly: bu=
sinesses would have to "distribute intellectual property free in order to s=
ell services and relationships."
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