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  • From: Andrea Glorioso <sama AT miu-ft.org>
  • To: cc-bizcom AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Cc-bizcom] 3 Page Proposal Summary
  • Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 18:40:15 +0200

>>>>> "Marshall" == Marshall Van Alstyne <marshall AT MIT.EDU> writes:

> Interesting. But, the folks who are capable of copying an SUV
> are relatively few in number.

> So let's take an idea put forward in the recording industry
> debates. Is the pirate copy a complement or a substitute? If
> the copy is sufficiently imperfect, it's more of an appetizer, a
> sample of the main course that leaves you hungry for more. This
> would be a complement.

> But if the copy is perfect, as it could be for most information
> content, then it could sate an appetite and limit sales. This
> would be a substitute.

> So the real implication would be a measure of complementarity or
> substitutability perhaps in turn measured by precision and
> completeness of the copy...

You could be interested in Stan Liebowitz's paper, "Peer-to-peer
networks: Creative Destruction or just Plain Destruction?" [0] in
which the author writes about the complement/substitute argument
(amongst other things). The paper has a good deal of bibliography,
too.

Bye,

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Andrea Glorioso sama AT miu-ft.org +39 333 820 5723
.:: Media Innovation Unit - Firenze Tecnologia ::.
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[0] http://www.serci.org/congress/papers/liebowitz2.pdf




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