Tag Archive: distribution

Jan
11

Need a harddisk upgrade? Best advice for 2012!

Hard Disk Upgrade 2012

Want a so-much-needed hard drive upgrade?
BEST advice, for entire 2012: DO IT NOW!

The recent (disaster) flood in Asia have halted the production line of hard disks for many hard drive manufacturers. Combined, with the dollar going upwards; disks will be getting more expensive and will most probably increase with an average of 50%; as long as the product availablity < product demand towards a the production and distribution chain. Distributors make their profit by buying larger bulk and selling smaller bulk towards the retail sector. When a product is unable to be supplied in quantity; the distributor has to charge higher margins; the final cost will be determined by the sum of all margins, in both chains (production and distribution), added with the retail margin, to be finally sold to the end-user.

You won’t get your disks cheaper, in the shop around the corner; because; the initial problem lies (almost) at the source. Read more about this by opening the article!

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Jan
03

Protest! Auvibel taxes killing indie artists!

Open Letter to Minister Van Quickenborne; regarding the growing digital market with glowing possibilities towards a growing culture of indie artists and the ever limiting Auvibel tax getting real on 1 february 2010. All external hdd’s, memory cards, usb sticks, settop boxes and mp3/mp4 players will be taxed with extra by Auvibel; even if used only for own materials. This tax is to support the artist, while the common artist, not connected to a collection-rights agency will get nothing.

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Apr
02

Movies for Dutch AND French talking people!

Films voor Iedereen!

Imagine yourself, you’ve just had a pleasant dinner and you’re running out with some quality wine, the lights are slightly dimmed and you consider renting a movie to finish the day in a most relaxed way. There you are in that videotheque with more than hunderds of dvd’s ready to watch from the comfort of your sofa. In Belgium this isn’t always that simple as it looks like!

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Mar
07

Music Industry, wakeup call for alternative licensing!

Who says music can’t be free while creating value? Think twice, because NiN’s CC-Licensed album, Ghosts I-IV, has been one of the best selling albums of 2008! This while this album could be freely downloaded as Creative Commons release. This is clearly the evidence Creative Commons can cooperate perfectly together with licensing; while NiN fans could have turned to any file sharing network to download the entire CC-BY-SA album legally.

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