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   From: candid@dontbother.invalid   
      
   aemeijers wrote:   
   > Frank Frank wrote:   
   >> aemeijers wrote:   
   >>> Frank Frank wrote:   
   >>>> aemeijers wrote:   
   >>>>> Frank Frank wrote:   
   >>>>>> Jack Bohn wrote:   
   >>>>>>> Frank Frank wrote:   
   >>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>> SFTV_troy wrote:   
   >>>>>>>>> Has Paramount put this show back in the vault?  It appears they   
   >>>>>>>>> have,   
   >>>>>>>>> and released TNG as a replacement.   
   >>>>>>>> Can they do that? Stop someone airing Star Trek AFTER having   
   >>>>>>>> sold the syndication rights to them?   
   >>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>> Well, it's not so much "sold" as "rented."  The rights to air are   
   >>>>>>> probably licensed for some time frame, and then the syndicator   
   >>>>>>> offers a new license (or not) and the stations pick it up again   
   >>>>>>> (or not).   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> Why would they not, though? If you have a product to sell and   
   >>>>>> there is demand. It would be as if Wal-Mart decided to close its   
   >>>>>> shops from October until next March or something like that -- what   
   >>>>>> possible kind of business sense could that make?   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> Ask Disney. They do the same thing with most of their 'classic'   
   >>>>> animated films. Last thing they want is for people to get bored   
   >>>>> with the product. (or in the case of videos, to be competing with   
   >>>>> their own product selling for a buck at garage sales.) About a   
   >>>>> seven-year cycle, which is the right interval for a fresh   
   >>>>> generation of their target demographic of kids, as well as for   
   >>>>> young parents to get past their snotty late-teenage and college   
   >>>>> years, and be nostalgic about the films they saw 7 or 14 years ago.   
   >>>>> TV cycle isn't that long, of course. There isn't enough product out   
   >>>>> there for that.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> Even the digital remastering and sweetened SFX for TOS were right   
   >>>>> out of the Disney playbook. Last go-around for most of the 'name'   
   >>>>> Disney Classics, they trumpeted how they were 'restored' from   
   >>>>> original masters.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> Old rule of show biz- always leave them wanting more.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> But it's artificial scarcity. It's evil. If someone wants it now   
   >>>> they should be able to have it now if they have the money to cover   
   >>>> the costs (parts + labour) for providing one more marginal unit.   
   >>>   
   >>> Shrug. If they don't wanna sell, you have no right to buy.   
   >>   
   >> No thanks to their monopoly. If one business isn't willing to   
   >> manufacture and sell wibbles, I should have the option of buying   
   >> wibbles from another business, really. Get rid of the notion of   
   >> exclusive, authorized, etc., etc., etc. and all these problems for   
   >> consumers would go away.   
   >   
   > Oh, grow up. Or at least go back to school [rest deleted]   
      
   Ad hominem argument duly noted.   
      
   Get back to me when you have a *real* argument.   
      
   In the meantime I recommend you read a blog called Techdirt.   
      
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