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July 03, 2005
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$1 Public Domain DVDs in the NY Times
Via FurdLog, I note that the New York Times has an article on $1 Public Domain DVDs (Attack of the $1 DVD's).
While overall DVD sales are robust - last year retailers sold $15.5 billion in discs - the low-end market is positively booming. Recently, 19 of the 50 top sellers on the Nielsen VideoScan national sales charts were budget DVD's. "The prices are irresistible," said Gary Delfiner, whose Global Multimedia Corporation offers 60 film, cartoon and television titles with prices ranging from 99 cents to $1.99.
Hmmm ... this sounds familiar. Oh, yeah, there were stories about this last year:
Who'd Buy the Public Domain for a Dollar?). And, while physical media is great, why not put these movies online for delivery straight to your television screen? When will people realize that they can
broadcatch this stuff?
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Ernest Miller pursues research and writing on cyberlaw, intellectual property, and First Amendment issues. Mr. Miller attended the U.S. Naval Academy before attending Yale Law School, where he was president and co-founder of the Law and Technology Society, and founded the technology law and policy news site LawMeme. He is a fellow of the Information Society Project at Yale Law School.
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