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Re: DeCSS, crypto, law, and economics
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Turner)
Wed Jan 8 13:37:48 2003
From: David Turner <novalis@novalis.org>
To: Pete Chown <Pete.Chown@skygate.co.uk>
Cc: cryptography@wasabisystems.com
In-Reply-To: <3E1C0279.40005@skygate.co.uk>
Date: 08 Jan 2003 13:29:39 -0500
On Wed, 2003-01-08 at 05:50, Pete Chown wrote:
> With DVDs we have a complex situation. Supposedly studios can make more
> per film, so they can afford to make more marginal films.
To make films which will not make money is not an economically rational
action even if one is making other films which do make money. This is
the point the 17 economists made in their Eldred amicus.
Disclaimer: I'm not an economist.
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