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http://www.synesthesia.co.uk/blog [Synesthesia] The Impact Of Podcasting On Paid-for Content Filed under: Intellectual Property Media Strategy 12-07-2005 A podcast and related blog post from Dave Winer makes some important points about the true impact of DRM on the media industry, and led me to start thinking about the strategic forces at play in the current “Internet will eat the Media” debate. In this post I summarise his key points, and then build on them to produce a value net analysis of the media industry from the perspective of the current incumbents. In later posts I will look at the analysis from the perspective of the people who create the content and devlop some thinking on the strategies open to both parties. The Dave Winer view In the podcast Dave draws strong parallels between the current rush of music, audiobook and video producers to adopt various strong forms of DRM to the practices of the software industry in the 80’s when copy-protection of software was common. What was once the industry...

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