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The digital-only media consumer

28 May 2015

Much has been studied, analysed, assumed, and theorized As time goes on, the different viewing habits about the impact of the internet and the information and and behaviours of communications technologies on these generations. [...] And it’s a shame because According to FT sources, the I work in advertising, but I like that companies have paid Eyeo to be there are no commercials and I don’t added to an official whitelist, always have to watch the same which allows them to bypass the advertising throughout the show. [...] I find a lot of people are getting rich in these fields and every time you commit a small crime by downloading something illegally they’re all like, “Think of the poor artists who aren’t getting their money.” Well, I have musician friends and when I talk to them about it they tell me, “When you buy a CD, I don’t even make a buck from the sale.” So $19 goes to whoever it is at the record label and [...] Their primal motivations are freedom of choice: Having the freedom of consuming content they want when and where they want it, of avoiding the hassle of intermediaries, of not having to pay for content they don’t want, of escaping advertising. [...] And with DVDs, once you’ve watched them, you don’t really have a need for the physical object anymore… Legal or illegal: a matter of perspective In the same way they don’t necessarily want everything for free and tend to reject ownership of content, they aren’t downloading illegally just for the sake of it, but mostly because it’s often the only way to access the content they desire: [It used to b
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Authors

Desjardins, Danielle

Pages
30
Published in
Ottawa, Ontario

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