Scott Cleland is a "telecom analyst" who, in reality, is actually paid a large sum of money by the telcos to slam Google. He's become sort of a joke in DC circles. In the past, we noted his a href="http://techdirt.com/articles/20080404/180724761.shtml"ridiculously bad math/a in claiming that Google fleeced taxpayers out of $7 billion, as well as his claims that "open spectrum" is somehow a href="http://techdirt.com/articles/20080131/003825134.shtml"anti-American/a. His main issue, of course, is trying to dispense a href="http://techdirt.com/articles/20061022/220402.shtml"bogus arguments/a for why net neutrality is really a big scam by Google to keep its broadband bills cheap. To give Cleland credit, at least he's not as bad as Mike McCurry, who once claimed that Google a href="http://techdirt.com/articles/20060801/0219252.shtml"doesn't pay a dime/a for broadband. McCurry, of course, has moved on from spinning for the telcos to spinning for a href="http://techdirt.com/articles/20080925/0216422370.shtml"the entertainment industry/a, so Cleland needed to up his game. br /br / He's now released a "study" claiming that a href="http://precursorblog.com/content/google-uses-21-times-more-bandwidth-it-pays-first-ever-research-study" target="_new"Google uses 21 times as much bandwidth as it pays for/a. First of all, this is simply incorrect. Cleland doesn't know how much Google actually pays for broadband, so he comes up with a small number, which is wrong a href="http://googlepublicpolicy.blogspot.com/2008/12/response-to-phone-companies-google.html" target="_new"for a variety of reasons/a. br /br / He seems to conflate consumer broadband and Google's broadband. This is based, in part, on the old telco argument that when you buy internet access, you're only buying access a href="http://techdirt.com/articles/20060131/0923209.shtml"to the middle/a of the internet, and you should have to pay a second time to actually ireach/i any endpoint or other user. So, even though consumers pay for the bandwidth they use to reach Google, Cleland appears to calculate that as being Google's responsibility, ignoring that consumers are paying plenty for the right to reach Google (and the rest of the internet). As Cord Blomquist points out, this is like a href="http://techliberation.com/2008/12/04/google-bandwidth-study-proves-very-little/" target="_new"pointing out that Best Buy should pay for the gas it takes/a for people to drive to Best Buy. Broadband Reports also does a a href="http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Scott-Cleland-Google-Using-21x-The-Bandwidth-They-Pay-For-99475" target="_new"nice job deconstructing this/a. br /br / However, even if we ignore all the basic facts and information that Cleland gets wrong, if we grant his premise, his argument still doesn't make any sense. If anything, rather than being an argument in favor of the telcos' position, Clelands report (if true) suggests that telco execs all deserve to be fired. After all, they're the ones who set up the business model and the billing relationship, and if they're undercharging Google by so much, then shouldn't they raise their prices? Of course, there's a good reason why this doesn't happen: because Google is paying fair market value for its bandwidth, and if anyone tried to charge them 21 times more, Google would quickly take its business elsewhere. So, based on this report, either Cleland is dead wrong in his report, or the telcos who funded it are run by morons who don't know how to set pricing correctly. Which one is more likely?br /br /a href="http://techdirt.com/articles/20081204/1453233022.shtml"Permalink/a | a href="http://techdirt.com/articles/20081204/1453233022.shtml#comments"Comments/a | a href="http://techdirt.com/article.php?sid=20081204/1453233022op=sharethis"Email This Story/abr / br style="clear: both;"/ a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=a97c18babe8ff3fe9b5f638da5a08d87p=1"img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=a97c18babe8ff3fe9b5f638da5a08d87p=1"//a img src="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/tracker.php?i=a97c18babe8ff3fe9b5f638da5a08d87" style="display: none;" border="0" height="1" width="1" alt=""/div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.techdirt.com/~f/techdirt/feed?a=RfDCo"img src="http://feeds.techdirt.com/~f/techdirt/feed?i=RfDCo" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.techdirt.com/~r/techdirt/feed/~4/475210547" height="1" width="1"/

pAs expected, studios and producers aren't backing down in the face of strike threats from the actors' guild. The Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers reiterated that their final offer of June 30 still stands and are urging the Screen Actors Guild to reverse course and throw its support behind the proposed contract. It's the latest development in a high-stakes game of cat-and-mouse that's placed yet another gray cloud over the entertainment industry. In a a href="http://www.amptp.org/" title="release this afternoon"release this afternoon/a, AMPTP wrote: "it offers more gains for SAG members than any other labor agreement in the guild's history. On the economic side alone, the offer is the richest ever by historical standards... These are clearly revolutionary times, and the final offer reflects that as well." /p p AMPTP also publicized the a href="http://www.amptp.org/files/AMPTP_SAG_final_offer_063008.pdf" title="final offer in its entirety"final offer in its entirety/a (PDF) and highlighted some a href="http://www.amptp.org/files/AMPTP_SAG_final_offer_summary.pdf" title="key points of its proposal"key points of its proposal/a (PDF). /p p bTop-line financial terms:/b The contract reflects an increase in minimums by 3.5 percent in the first and third years and 3 percent in the second year. Pension and health rates would increase from 14.5 percent to 15 percent. Guest star premiums would jump from 7.5 percent to 10 percent. The number of background actors covered would increase in TV from 19 to 20 and from 50 to 52 in film. /p p bNew media terms:/b Much to SAG's chagrin; the deal includes an exception to jurisdiction in most cases that involve original content made for online or mobile. Actors would not gain consent rights or compensation for clips used in new media. The proposal does include first-ever residuals for ad-supported streaming of films, TV and new media programs and increases the residual rate for permanent downloads. br / /p pstrongRelated/strong/p ul class="related" lia href="http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-actors-union-seeks-strike-vote-after-federal-mediation-fails" title="Actors Union Seeks Strike Vote After Federal Mediation Fails"Actors Union Seeks Strike Vote After Federal Mediation Fails/a/li lia href="http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-actors-union-board-holds-off-on-strike-authorization-requests-mediation" title="Actors Union Board Holds Off On Strike Authorization; Requests Mediation"Actors Union Board Holds Off On Strike Authorization; Requests Mediation/a/li /ul piCheck out the best business jobs in digital media. a href="http://jobs.paidcontent.org/"Go here/a for paidContent.org Job Board./i/p pa href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/pcorg?a=R3RCUL"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/pcorg?i=R3RCUL" border="0"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=WYH5O"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=WYH5O" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=GgR1O"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=GgR1O" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=B2edo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=B2edo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=oM8gO"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=oM8gO" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=XDk3O"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=XDk3O" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/pcorg/~4/475125218" height="1" width="1"/

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You may recall, just about a year ago, there was suddenly a bunch of news over the possibility of Canada introducing its a href="http://techdirt.com/articles/20071210/134616.shtml"own version/a of the US's Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). To the surprise of both the entertainment industry (who helped craft the law) and the politicians who were pushing it, the a href="http://techdirt.com/articles/20071213/105615.shtml"opposition/a to this law was incredibly successful in getting its message out. Starting with calls on various blogs and Facebook groups, kicked off by law professor Michael Geist, the issue became a big one throughout the media. The politicians who promised the entertainment industry that they would pass this law tried to a href="http://techdirt.com/articles/20071210/134616.shtml"delay/a the introduction, assuming that the opposition, while loud, was thin and would fade away. They were wrong. The issue continued to get attention, and when the law was finally a href="http://techdirt.com/articles/20080612/1017381387.shtml"introduced/a, the opposition, across the board, was widespread and strong. It wasn't just a fringe issue among "internet activists." It was something that people from all over the economy saw as a fundamental issue worth fighting for. br /br / But why? br /br / For years, copyright (and wider intellectual property) law has been considered to be sort of inside baseball, something that only lawyers and the entertainment industry cared about. But that's been changing. There are a variety of reasons for why this happened and why copyright is considered a a href="http://techdirt.com/articles/20081111/0327252799.shtml"key issue/a for so many people in so many parts of the economy. Michael Geist has now put together a film that tries to examine that question. After first discussing how the issue became such a big deal, Geist interviews a number of Canadian copyfighters to get a sense of iwhy/i copyright is an issue worth fighting about: center embed src="http://blip.tv/play/AdzqIovtag" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="500" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"/embed /center Not surprisingly, Geist has also made the movie available in a variety of different formats so people can do what they want with it, including remixing or re-editing it. There's the a href="http://blip.tv/file/1513205/"full version/a (seen above), an a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTFEwXi1Pnk"annotated version/a, a a href="http://dotsub.com/media/cdd2f6d7-d101-4142-b18c-3ad11ba79193"version for subtitling/a, or you can download the full movie via BitTorrent at either a href="http://www.mininova.org/tor/2054674"Mininova/a or a href=" http://www.vuze.com/details/2OQKU47Y56JSCE6RXQ2W5JNDSL3KBEM7.html"Vuze/a. Unless, of course, you live somewhere where they claim that BitTorrent is evil and must be blocked.br /br /a href="http://techdirt.com/articles/20081203/1826493010.shtml"Permalink/a | a href="http://techdirt.com/articles/20081203/1826493010.shtml#comments"Comments/a | a href="http://techdirt.com/article.php?sid=20081203/1826493010op=sharethis"Email This Story/abr / br style="clear: both;"/ a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=1c14b7e79411174ec5ad8a1ed278b03fp=1"img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=1c14b7e79411174ec5ad8a1ed278b03fp=1"//a img src="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/tracker.php?i=1c14b7e79411174ec5ad8a1ed278b03f" style="display: none;" border="0" height="1" width="1" alt=""/div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.techdirt.com/~f/techdirt/feed?a=vcWNo"img src="http://feeds.techdirt.com/~f/techdirt/feed?i=vcWNo" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.techdirt.com/~r/techdirt/feed/~4/474606566" height="1" width="1"/

We've discussed a few times how the distributors of Japanese anime have often had something of a love-hate affair with "fansubbers" -- fans who take the original videos in Japan and subtitle them in foreign languages for fans in other countries. A few years ago, we noted that rather than set loose the legal hounds on fansubbers, many anime companies a href="http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20051129/1036202.shtml"embraced the fansubbers/a and used them to learn where there were strong potential market openings for foreign distribution. It was like free market research. On top of that, many realized that the fansubs helped a href="http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20040810/1322250_F.shtml"increase demand/a for the authorized product. Unfortunately, a href="http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20071126/182202.shtml"not all/a anime distributors have seen things the same way, but many have. br /br / a href="http://slashdot.org/~ruin20/comments"Matt/a writes in to tell us about the case of the a href="http://www.dattebayo.com/pr/100" target="_new"Dattebayo fansub group/a, which has been doing rapid, high quality releases of certain popular anime titles. The company behind the anime has never bothered them. Rather than try to shut them down, the US licensee of the series has decided to put up its own ifree/i subtitled versions, knowing that if it tries to put significant restrictions on them, it will never work. The group is actually charging people for a week, right after the shows air in Japan (rather than the typical long wait), but then will offer it free. In response, the fansub group is going to stop creating their own versions, noting they only did so in order to watch the videos in a reasonable time frame. Once again, despite what some in the entertainment industry claim, we're seeing that you absolutely ican/i compete with so-called "pirates."br /br /a href="http://techdirt.com/articles/20081130/2124212974.shtml"Permalink/a | a href="http://techdirt.com/articles/20081130/2124212974.shtml#comments"Comments/a | a href="http://techdirt.com/article.php?sid=20081130/2124212974op=sharethis"Email This Story/abr / br style="clear: both;"/ a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=02745c180b93b279a0247b5f5afb831ap=1"img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=02745c180b93b279a0247b5f5afb831ap=1"//a img src="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/tracker.php?i=02745c180b93b279a0247b5f5afb831a" style="display: none;" border="0" height="1" width="1" alt=""/div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.techdirt.com/~f/techdirt/feed?a=cswno"img src="http://feeds.techdirt.com/~f/techdirt/feed?i=cswno" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.techdirt.com/~r/techdirt/feed/~4/474530284" height="1" width="1"/

a href="http://img.qj.net/uploads/articles_module/126992/empty 20shelves_qjgenth.png?141730" rel="lightbox[article126992]" title="Empty 20shelves 20- 20Image 201 20 26nbsp 3B 20 20 26nbsp 3B 20 3Ca 20href 3D 22http 3A//img.qj.net/uploads/articles_module/126992/empty 20shelves.png 3F141730 22 20target 3D 22_blank 22 3E 3Cimg 20src 3D 22/img/newwindow.png 22 20title 3D 22Open 20in 20new 20window 22 20border 3D 220 22 3E 3C/a 3E"img style="margin-bottom: 3px; margin-left: 3px;" alt="Empty shelves - Image 1" title="Empty shelves - Image 1" src="http://img.qj.net/uploads/articles_module/126992/empty 20shelves_qjgenth.png?141730" align="right" border="0"/aInternet connections are getting faster and faster every year, digital downloading services are raking it in hand over fist, and a growing number of games are choosing to release without the benefit of a retail component. brbrMost recently, the Xbox Live Marketplace and the PlayStation Network have provided the impetus for even greater leaps and bounds in the growth of the digital downloading industry. brbrAll these things considered, it's easy to assume that retail may very well become a thing of the past very soon.brbrNot quite, says a href="http://pspupdates.qj.net/tags/bo-andersen/11941" id="tag" title="President of Entertainment Merchants Association"Bo Andersen/a, President and CEO of the Entertainment Merchants Association (a href="http://pspupdates.qj.net/tags/ema/6635" id="tag" title="Entertainment Merchants Association"EMA/a). He mentioned during a meeting with the Content Delivery and Storage Association (CDSA) and the MEDIA-TECH Association (MTA):brbrp style="padding-left: 40px; padding-right: 40px;"Digital distribution certainly will be a significant part of the entertainment industry in the future, but our predictions are that packaged media will continue to dominate the home video sector until 2015 at least./pbrContributing to his somewhat conservative view on the industry, was probably a recent survey conducted by the EMA and the CDSA. The results, covered in one of a title="EMA survey says: Gamers like their packages" href="http://pspupdates.qj.net/EMA-survey-says-Gamers-like-their-packages/pg/49/aid/125479"our previous articles/a, led Andersen to the conclusion that gamers consider packages (GAME packages, that is) to be an integral part of the full value of a product.brbrThe EMA is co-producer of "The Future of Packaged Media '09," which will be presented February 3-4, 2009 at the Hilton Los Angeles in Universal City, CA.brbrhr style="width: 100 ; height: 2px;"brspan style="font-weight: bold;"Related Articles:/spanbrullia title="EMA: DVD sales still oustrip video game sales" href="http://www.qj.net/EMA-DVD-sales-still-oustrip-video-game-sales/pg/49/aid/121868"span style="font-style: italic;"EMA: DVD sales still oustrip video game sales/span/abr/li/ulbrbrdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/QJ/PSP?a=jL2FhcBH"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/QJ/PSP?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/QJ/PSP?a=fhhcezIe"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/QJ/PSP?d=50" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/QJ/PSP?a=umf3K37Z"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/QJ/PSP?d=43" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/QJ/PSP/~4/x44gEcXdm-w" height="1" width="1"/

a href="http://img.qj.net/uploads/articles_module/126992/empty 20shelves_qjgenth.png?141730" rel="lightbox[article126992]" title="Empty 20shelves 20- 20Image 201 20 26nbsp 3B 20 20 26nbsp 3B 20 3Ca 20href 3D 22http 3A//img.qj.net/uploads/articles_module/126992/empty 20shelves.png 3F141730 22 20target 3D 22_blank 22 3E 3Cimg 20src 3D 22/img/newwindow.png 22 20title 3D 22Open 20in 20new 20window 22 20border 3D 220 22 3E 3C/a 3E"img style="margin-bottom: 3px; margin-left: 3px;" alt="Empty shelves - Image 1" title="Empty shelves - Image 1" src="http://img.qj.net/uploads/articles_module/126992/empty 20shelves_qjgenth.png?141730" align="right" border="0"/aInternet connections are getting faster and faster every year, digital downloading services are raking it in hand over fist, and a growing number of games are choosing to release without the benefit of a retail component. brbrMost recently, the Xbox Live Marketplace and the PlayStation Network have provided the impetus for even greater leaps and bounds in the growth of the digital downloading industry. brbrAll these things considered, it's easy to assume that retail may very well become a thing of the past very soon.brbrNot quite, says a href="http://wii.qj.net/tags/bo-andersen/11941" id="tag" title="President of Entertainment Merchants Association"Bo Andersen/a, President and CEO of the Entertainment Merchants Association (a href="http://wii.qj.net/tags/ema/6635" id="tag" title="Entertainment Merchants Association"EMA/a). He mentioned during a meeting with the Content Delivery and Storage Association (CDSA) and the MEDIA-TECH Association (MTA):brbrp style="padding-left: 40px; padding-right: 40px;"Digital distribution certainly will be a significant part of the entertainment industry in the future, but our predictions are that packaged media will continue to dominate the home video sector until 2015 at least./pbrContributing to his somewhat conservative view on the industry was probably a recent survey conducted by the EMA and the CDSA. The results, covered in one of a title="EMA survey says: Gamers like their packages" href="http://pspupdates.qj.net/EMA-survey-says-Gamers-like-their-packages/pg/49/aid/125479"our previous articles/a, led Andersen to the conclusion that gamers consider game packages to be an integral part of the full value of a product.brbrThe EMA is co-producer of "The Future of Packaged Media '09," which will be presented February 3 to 4, 2009 at the Hilton Los Angeles in Universal City, CA.brbrhr style="width: 100 ; height: 2px;"brspan style="font-weight: bold;"Related Articles:/spanbrullia title="EMA: DVD sales still oustrip video game sales" href="http://www.qj.net/EMA-DVD-sales-still-oustrip-video-game-sales/pg/49/aid/121868"span style="font-style: italic;"EMA: DVD sales still oustrip video game sales/span/abr/li/ulbrbrdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/qj/wii?a=nTCTilQP"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/qj/wii?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/qj/wii?a=YZwKNYdf"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/qj/wii?d=43" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/qj/wii?a=TgfRX2lS"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/qj/wii?d=50" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/qj/wii/~4/_rGXWxTKTFs" height="1" width="1"/

a href="http://img.qj.net/uploads/articles_module/126992/empty 20shelves_qjgenth.png?141730" rel="lightbox[article126992]" title="Empty 20shelves 20- 20Image 201 20 26nbsp 3B 20 20 26nbsp 3B 20 3Ca 20href 3D 22http 3A//img.qj.net/uploads/articles_module/126992/empty 20shelves.png 3F141730 22 20target 3D 22_blank 22 3E 3Cimg 20src 3D 22/img/newwindow.png 22 20title 3D 22Open 20in 20new 20window 22 20border 3D 220 22 3E 3C/a 3E"img style="margin-bottom: 3px; margin-left: 3px;" alt="Empty shelves - Image 1" title="Empty shelves - Image 1" src="http://img.qj.net/uploads/articles_module/126992/empty 20shelves_qjgenth.png?141730" align="right" border="0"/aInternet connections are getting faster and faster every year, digital downloading services are raking it in hand over fist, and a growing number of games are choosing to release without the benefit of a retail component. brbrMost recently, the Xbox Live Marketplace and the PlayStation Network have provided the impetus for even greater leaps and bounds in the growth of the digital downloading industry. brbrAll these things considered, it's easy to assume that retail may very well become a thing of the past very soon.brbrNot quite, says a href="http://ps3.qj.net/tags/bo-andersen/11941" id="tag" title="President of Entertainment Merchants Association"Bo Andersen/a, President and CEO of the Entertainment Merchants Association (a href="http://ps3.qj.net/tags/ema/6635" id="tag" title="Entertainment Merchants Association"EMA/a). He mentioned during a meeting with the Content Delivery and Storage Association (CDSA) and the MEDIA-TECH Association (MTA):brbrp style="padding-left: 40px; padding-right: 40px;"Digital distribution certainly will be a significant part of the entertainment industry in the future, but our predictions are that packaged media will continue to dominate the home video sector until 2015 at least./pbrContributing to his somewhat conservative view on the industry was probably a recent survey conducted by the EMA and the CDSA. The results, covered in one of a title="EMA survey says: Gamers like their packages" href="http://pspupdates.qj.net/EMA-survey-says-Gamers-like-their-packages/pg/49/aid/125479"our previous articles/a, led Andersen to the conclusion that gamers consider game packages to be an integral part of the full value of a product.brbrThe EMA is co-producer of "The Future of Packaged Media '09," which will be presented February 3 to 4, 2009 at the Hilton Los Angeles in Universal City, CA.brbrhr style="width: 100 ; height: 2px;"brspan style="font-weight: bold;"Related Articles:/spanbrullia title="EMA: DVD sales still oustrip video game sales" href="http://www.qj.net/EMA-DVD-sales-still-oustrip-video-game-sales/pg/49/aid/121868"span style="font-style: italic;"EMA: DVD sales still oustrip video game sales/span/abr/li/ulbrbrimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/qj/ps3/~4/PhcW8seQuH4" height="1" width="1"/

a href="http://img.qj.net/uploads/articles_module/126992/empty 20shelves_qjgenth.png?141730" rel="lightbox[article126992]" title="Empty 20shelves 20- 20Image 201 20 26nbsp 3B 20 20 26nbsp 3B 20 3Ca 20href 3D 22http 3A//img.qj.net/uploads/articles_module/126992/empty 20shelves.png 3F141730 22 20target 3D 22_blank 22 3E 3Cimg 20src 3D 22/img/newwindow.png 22 20title 3D 22Open 20in 20new 20window 22 20border 3D 220 22 3E 3C/a 3E"img style="margin-bottom: 3px; margin-left: 3px;" alt="Empty shelves - Image 1" title="Empty shelves - Image 1" src="http://img.qj.net/uploads/articles_module/126992/empty 20shelves_qjgenth.png?141730" align="right" border="0"/aInternet connections are getting faster and faster every year, digital downloading services are raking it in hand over fist, and a growing number of games are choosing to release without the benefit of a retail component. brbrMost recently, the Xbox Live Marketplace and the PlayStation Network have provided the impetus for even greater leaps and bounds in the growth of the digital downloading industry. brbrAll these things considered, it's easy to assume that retail may very well become a thing of the past very soon.brbrNot quite, says a href="http://pspupdates.qj.net/tags/bo-andersen/11941" id="tag" title="President of Entertainment Merchants Association"Bo Andersen/a, President and CEO of the Entertainment Merchants Association (a href="http://pspupdates.qj.net/tags/ema/6635" id="tag" title="Entertainment Merchants Association"EMA/a). He mentioned during a meeting with the Content Delivery and Storage Association (CDSA) and the MEDIA-TECH Association (MTA):brbrp style="padding-left: 40px; padding-right: 40px;"Digital distribution certainly will be a significant part of the entertainment industry in the future, but our predictions are that packaged media will continue to dominate the home video sector until 2015 at least./pbrContributing to his somewhat conservative view on the industry was probably a recent survey conducted by the EMA and the CDSA. The results, covered in one of a title="EMA survey says: Gamers like their packages" href="http://pspupdates.qj.net/EMA-survey-says-Gamers-like-their-packages/pg/49/aid/125479"our previous articles/a, led Andersen to the conclusion that gamers consider game packages to be an integral part of the full value of a product.brbrThe EMA is co-producer of "The Future of Packaged Media '09," which will be presented February 3 to 4, 2009 at the Hilton Los Angeles in Universal City, CA.brbrhr style="width: 100 ; height: 2px;"brspan style="font-weight: bold;"Related Articles:/spanbrullia title="EMA: DVD sales still oustrip video game sales" href="http://www.qj.net/EMA-DVD-sales-still-oustrip-video-game-sales/pg/49/aid/121868"span style="font-style: italic;"EMA: DVD sales still oustrip video game sales/span/abr/li/ulbrbrdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/QJ/PSP?a=BFobcFWy"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/QJ/PSP?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/QJ/PSP?a=KrGxcPX6"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/QJ/PSP?d=50" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/QJ/PSP?a=UrQ9Xuy9"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/QJ/PSP?d=43" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/QJ/PSP/~4/TeAfetjD6xw" height="1" width="1"/

a href="http://img.qj.net/uploads/articles_module/126992/empty 20shelves_qjgenth.png?141730" rel="lightbox[article126992]" title="Empty 20shelves 20- 20Image 201 20 26nbsp 3B 20 20 26nbsp 3B 20 3Ca 20href 3D 22http 3A//img.qj.net/uploads/articles_module/126992/empty 20shelves.png 3F141730 22 20target 3D 22_blank 22 3E 3Cimg 20src 3D 22/img/newwindow.png 22 20title 3D 22Open 20in 20new 20window 22 20border 3D 220 22 3E 3C/a 3E"img style="margin-bottom: 3px; margin-left: 3px;" alt="Empty shelves - Image 1" title="Empty shelves - Image 1" src="http://img.qj.net/uploads/articles_module/126992/empty 20shelves_qjgenth.png?141730" align="right" border="0"/aInternet connections are getting faster and faster every year, digital downloading services are raking it in hand over fist, and a growing number of games are choosing to release without the benefit of a retail component. brbrMost recently, the Xbox Live Marketplace and the PlayStation Network have provided the impetus for even greater leaps and bounds in the growth of the digital downloading industry. brbrAll these things considered, it's easy to assume that retail may very well become a thing of the past very soon.brbrNot quite, says a href="http://wii.qj.net/tags/bo-andersen/11941" id="tag" title="President of Entertainment Merchants Association"Bo Andersen/a, President and CEO of the Entertainment Merchants Association (a href="http://wii.qj.net/tags/ema/6635" id="tag" title="Entertainment Merchants Association"EMA/a). He mentioned during a meeting with the Content Delivery and Storage Association (CDSA) and the MEDIA-TECH Association (MTA):brbrp style="padding-left: 40px; padding-right: 40px;"Digital distribution certainly will be a significant part of the entertainment industry in the future, but our predictions are that packaged media will continue to dominate the home video sector until 2015 at least./pbrContributing to his somewhat conservative view on the industry was probably a recent survey conducted by the EMA and the CDSA. The results, covered in one of a title="EMA survey says: Gamers like their packages" href="http://pspupdates.qj.net/EMA-survey-says-Gamers-like-their-packages/pg/49/aid/125479"our previous articles/a, led Andersen to the conclusion that gamers consider game packages to be an integral part of the full value of a product.brbrThe EMA is co-producer of "The Future of Packaged Media '09," which will be presented February 3 to 4, 2009 at the Hilton Los Angeles in Universal City, CA.brbrhr style="width: 100 ; height: 2px;"brspan style="font-weight: bold;"Related Articles:/spanbrullia title="EMA: DVD sales still oustrip video game sales" href="http://www.qj.net/EMA-DVD-sales-still-oustrip-video-game-sales/pg/49/aid/121868"span style="font-style: italic;"EMA: DVD sales still oustrip video game sales/span/abr/li/ulbrbrdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/qj/wii?a=KhdwxTDl"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/qj/wii?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/qj/wii?a=Do6hgkZ9"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/qj/wii?d=43" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/qj/wii?a=u0c9oQq6"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/qj/wii?d=50" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/qj/wii/~4/k0azwJe013E" height="1" width="1"/

a href="http://img.qj.net/uploads/articles_module/126992/empty 20shelves_qjgenth.png?141730" rel="lightbox[article126992]" title="Empty 20shelves 20- 20Image 201 20 26nbsp 3B 20 20 26nbsp 3B 20 3Ca 20href 3D 22http 3A//img.qj.net/uploads/articles_module/126992/empty 20shelves.png 3F141730 22 20target 3D 22_blank 22 3E 3Cimg 20src 3D 22/img/newwindow.png 22 20title 3D 22Open 20in 20new 20window 22 20border 3D 220 22 3E 3C/a 3E"img style="margin-bottom: 3px; margin-left: 3px;" alt="Empty shelves - Image 1" title="Empty shelves - Image 1" src="http://img.qj.net/uploads/articles_module/126992/empty 20shelves_qjgenth.png?141730" align="right" border="0"/aInternet connections are getting faster and faster every year, digital downloading services are raking it in hand over fist, and a growing number of games are choosing to release without the benefit of a retail component. brbrMost recently, the Xbox Live Marketplace and the PlayStation Network have provided the impetus for even greater leaps and bounds in the growth of the digital downloading industry. brbrAll these things considered, it's easy to assume that retail may very well become a thing of the past very soon.brbrNot quite, says a href="http://ps3.qj.net/tags/bo-andersen/11941" id="tag" title="President of Entertainment Merchants Association"Bo Andersen/a, President and CEO of the Entertainment Merchants Association (a href="http://ps3.qj.net/tags/ema/6635" id="tag" title="Entertainment Merchants Association"EMA/a). He mentioned during a meeting with the Content Delivery and Storage Association (CDSA) and the MEDIA-TECH Association (MTA):brbrp style="padding-left: 40px; padding-right: 40px;"Digital distribution certainly will be a significant part of the entertainment industry in the future, but our predictions are that packaged media will continue to dominate the home video sector until 2015 at least./pbrContributing to his somewhat conservative view on the industry was probably a recent survey conducted by the EMA and the CDSA. The results, covered in one of a title="EMA survey says: Gamers like their packages" href="http://pspupdates.qj.net/EMA-survey-says-Gamers-like-their-packages/pg/49/aid/125479"our previous articles/a, led Andersen to the conclusion that gamers consider game packages to be an integral part of the full value of a product.brbrThe EMA is co-producer of "The Future of Packaged Media '09," which will be presented February 3 to 4, 2009 at the Hilton Los Angeles in Universal City, CA.brbrhr style="width: 100 ; height: 2px;"brspan style="font-weight: bold;"Related Articles:/spanbrullia title="EMA: DVD sales still oustrip video game sales" href="http://www.qj.net/EMA-DVD-sales-still-oustrip-video-game-sales/pg/49/aid/121868"span style="font-style: italic;"EMA: DVD sales still oustrip video game sales/span/abr/li/ulbrbrimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/qj/ps3/~4/MvWAX7gDkVQ" height="1" width="1"/

pimg src="http://www.gamasutra.com/db_area/images/news2001/21331/gh.jpg" align="left" hspace="5"/Codeworks GameHorizon, a UK video games business network, announced that its GameHorizon Conference will return next year on June 23 - 24 at the The Sage Gateshead in Gateshead, England. The company expects an "exclusive audience" of around 300 people to attend the conference. In its second year, the two-day conference invites publishers, developers, format holders, middleware and hardware companies, and professional service firms from the global interactive entertainment industry to discuss the future of .../pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/GamasutraNews?a=hDFgO"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/GamasutraNews?i=hDFgO" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/GamasutraNews?a=mf4MO"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/GamasutraNews?i=mf4MO" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/GamasutraNews?a=nMNrO"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/GamasutraNews?i=nMNrO" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GamasutraNews/~4/473904184" height="1" width="1"/