http://www.xconomy.com/san-diego/2009/06/16/the-divx-story-from-downloading-%e2%80%98the-matrix%e2%80%99-to-watching-it-on-all-three-screens/ Business + Technology in the Exponential Economy Sat, 11 Feb 2012 09:14:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 http://www.xconomy.com/san-diego/2009/06/16/the-divx-story-from-downloading-%e2%80%98the-matrix%e2%80%99-to-watching-it-on-all-three-screens/comment-page-1/#comment-67664 David Brown Sun, 28 Jun 2009 18:16:24 +0000 http://www.xconomy.com/?p=29022#comment-67664 Piracy is an easily defeated problem. If music and movie companies released their product with profit margins less than 500% a CD, DVD or Blue Ray disc would be affordable. In Australia a music CD at $30 and a DVD at $40 is too expensive. Companies could drop their price to $10 per item and "bang" three quarters of the pirate's market will gladly buy the legitimate versions. Good on DivX. Perhaps online distribution will reduce the cost of entertainment to a tolerable level. Somehow I'm skeptical though!! Piracy is an easily defeated problem. If music and movie companies released their product with profit margins less than 500% a CD, DVD or Blue Ray disc would be affordable. In Australia a music CD at $30 and a DVD at $40 is too expensive. Companies could drop their price to $10 per item and “bang” three quarters of the pirate’s market will gladly buy the legitimate versions. Good on DivX. Perhaps online distribution will reduce the cost of entertainment to a tolerable level. Somehow I’m skeptical though!!

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