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The Broken Windows Theory

January 30, 2006 on 9:47 pm |
Categories: law, copyright and drm, technology
Tags: law, technology

The Broken Windows Theory:
Who suffers when the DVD is released before the movie has left theaters?
(Via Slate Magazine).
A persuasive and calmly-written piece from Slate’s Daniel Gross on ‘windowing’, the industry term for staggered releasing of movies and suchlike. He expands it into a general criticism of the common perception in the [...] (…)