One-size-fits-all mandates on critical consumer technologies will stifle the growth of the intellectual property industry and indeed, of new forms of art. A wide array of hardware-software combinations to choose from would best serve copyright holders -- artists and the content industries -- and consumers.

The full paper (29 pages) is available for download in PDF.

Those who follow the issue will find familiar material here, but numerous original nuggets make it worth a look. In particular, the thread on differential pricing is recommended.

Studios and broadcasters might look to both new and old advertising models to capture revenue. Non-separable advertising / programming will play a larger role, as it did in the early days of television.

Cultural "purists” may balk at the idea of mixing business and entertainment -- but is there really that much artistic integrity to be frittered away? Is "Everybody Loves Raymond" a work of such high cultural value that it would wither under such treatment?