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   From: jimgysin@geemail.com   
      
   Frank Frank sent the following on 10/28/2009 3:24 AM:   
   > Jim Gysin wrote:   
   >> Frank Frank sent the following on 10/26/2009 12:47 AM:   
   >>> Jim Gysin wrote:   
   >>>> Frank Frank sent the following on 10/25/2009 7:03 AM:   
   >>>>> 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.   
   >>>> Why?   
   >>> It's called "capitalism". If you don't get it, then feel free to move   
   >>> to China, Cuba, or North Korea.   
   >> The last time I looked, capitalism was a voluntary arrangement on *both*   
   >> sides.   
   >   
   > I don't disagree.   
      
   And yet you advocate various forms of thuggery and theft to get what you   
   want for a price that the seller would otherwise be unwilling to accept.   
      
   > But you restraining trade by other businesses is not   
   > capitalism; it's monopoly.   
      
   I'm not restraining trade, as they're free to trade anything that they   
   have a right to be trading in the first place.  Rather, I am restraining   
   theft.   
      
   >> You may want to re-take your high school economics course.   
   >> Unless you're still in grade school, in which case you may want to pay   
   >> attention when you grow up and take econ in high school.   
   >   
   > Ad hominem argument duly noted.   
   >   
   > Get back to me when you have a *real* argument.   
      
   Get back to me when you've taken or re-taken high school econ.   
      
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   Jim Gysin   
   Waukesha, WI   
      
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