Time-Based Revenue-Collecting Models

Example

Amelia Andersdotter:

"Recently in Hongkong, I learned that the music industry in Hongkong has mostly adapted to time-based revenue collecting models. Apparently most of the illegally available copies online are put on the file-sharing networks by the music companies themselves (only Hongkong pop, mind) and revenues are instead made through in the ever increasing tornado of highly competitive Hongkong night life, available for all 7.2 million inhabitants at almost any night of the week. Apparently it is, despite rapid time-based model innovation, primarily the movie industry that is still causing a rights-based hassle to Hongkong cultural participants. I asked if there is any commercial piracy of copyrighted material in Hongkong, but was told that it would be stupid to buy pirate copies since the internet connections are so good. I was further told that most illegally distributed copies in China are put in circulation by the industry itself, since it saves them more time and money to bypass the state censors than to wait for market approval." (http://stenskott.wordpress.com/2010/11/12/non-rights/)

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See also: Granular Payment Systems, http://www.delicious.com/teirdes/granularpayment