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poll results Do you believe that the major record labels would generate more revenues by selling digital recorded music in the MP3 format instead of using DRMs? TOTAL: 875
previous polls Should Google acquire TiVo? - View Results Should Google?s plan to provide a search function for the copyrighted contents of books in prominent libraries be considered an infringement? - View Results Will the home stereo of the future find the iPod as the centerpiece docked into a small receiver/amplifier? - View Results Could the movie studios materially stimulate box office receipts by podcasting the first ten minutes of new releases to video iPods? - View Results Would you pay $50 extra to have video capability in an iPod? - View Results Have you ever listened to, or watched, a podcast? - View Results Will the Apple decision to start shipping computers with Intel processors in a year adversely impact Mac sales until then? - View Results How long will Yahoo Music Unlimited maintain its $7 monthly ($60 annual) subscription rate? - View Results Can Yahoo Music Unlimited be profitable at $60 ANNUAL subscription price plus ad revenues? - View Results Do you have a Personal Video Recorder like a TiVo? - View Results Do you have a webcam? - View Results Should Apple Computer buy TiVo? - View Results Should H-P and Sony seek authority to introduce a second line of computers based upon the Apple OS? - View Results Did Apple make a mistake by failing to include a display screen in the new iPod Shuffle? - View Results Do you believe that Apple Computer will license its OS-X Operating System to companies like Hewlett-Packard, Dell, or other PC makers in 2005? - View Results Is it in the best interests of the copyright holders for the labels and studios to relax, or intensify, the prosecution of individual P2P file swappers? - View Results Five years from now will the Apple iPod still be the number one portable digital music player? - View Results Which is the greater deterrent to P2P infringing uses? - View Results Does it make sense for Apple to license its operating system thereby allowing clones to be made of its computers? - View Results Would you buy an Apple computer in order to avoid adware and spyware problems? - View Results Should the Federal goverment subsidize broadband Internet access? - View Results Now that Microsoft has become an online music retailer, do you believe that they will surpass Apple? - View Results Do you believe that the RIAA settlement with iMesh implies that iMesh will become the first major P2P network to sell licensed content from the record labels? - View Results The Senate bill sponsored by Hatch, Frist, Boxer, and Daschle that would permit copyright holders to sue companies providing technologies that might induce copyright infringement will - View Results If you owned a Portable Digital Media player, would you prefer to view video on an immersive screen that you put on like a pair of eyeglasses or a screen embedded in the storage unit? - View Results If priced low enough to discourage piracy, would it make sense for the labels to sell tracks in unprotected formats like MP3? - View Results Would you prefer to get your digital music as an al a carte download or as an all you can eat monthly service which terminates when you stop paying the monthly fee? - View Results The European Union's sanctions against Microsoft are, - View Results Would you patronize a Blockbuster unit where you could search an almost limitless inventory of movies in digital formats, and burn the selected ones to a DVD right there in the store to purchase and take home with you? - View Results Do you believe that the new Starbucks coffee shops with a virtual inventory of 10,000 digital music albums can become an important new retail outlet for recorded music? - View Results Now that Apple has revealed that they're selling 2.5 million digital music tracks a week, is this more, or less, than you had expected them to do by this date? - View Results Would you LIKE to have a digital camera integrated into your mobile phone? - View Results Do you have a digital camera integrated into your wireless mobile phone? - View Results Are the amounts stipulated as statutory damages fair in the case of P2P music file sharing? - View Results Do you believe that the European Commission will require that the Windows Media player be separated from the operating system? (see blog below) - View Results Are you considering the adoption of VoIP for your home? - View Results Do you trust investment research from an Investment Banking firm to be fair and objective? - View Results Would you pay $20 per month for unlimited PC to PC video service over the Internet? - View Results What player do you believe can become the standard for streamed media to mobile devices? - View Results Now that Apple has struck a deal to have H-P distribute iTunes and a version of the iPod, do you think that the Apple platform can become the de facto standard for legal download stores? - View Results Owing to the improvement in CD sales in the second half of 2003 and the drop in P2P file sharing, do you believe that the sales of physical pre-packaged CDs will grow in 2004? - View Results Do you believe that the Windows DRM is likely to become the defacto standard among the licensed music download services? - View Results Would you consider using IP telephony service from a CATV operator as as replacement for your conventional residential telephone service? - View Results Is the second coming of online music a speculative bubble already, or still in the early stages of a gold rush? - View Results Given the experience described in the blog below, will the legitimate online music stores need to offer a universally accepted format? - View Results Is it in the public interest to permit Sony and Bertelsmann to merge their recorded music businesses? - View Results Is there really a meaningful demand for a website that permits unlicensed music artists to sell their songs like mp3.com originally intended? - View Results Do you have broadband access? - View Results Do you believe that digital music subscription deals like the one that Napster recently signed with Penn State will become commonplace in the next year or two? - View Results Do you think Microsoft will choose a digital music vendor to promote through OEM versions of Windows like it did for AOL as an ISP? - View Results Now that Dell has selected MusicMatch as a digital music partner, it seems logical to expect that Hewlett-Packard (and Compaq) will look for similar arrangements. Who do you think they will choose? - View Results What would you be willing to pay as a monthly fee to have access to transcripts and PowerPoint slides for all available interviews? - View Results What media player do you normally use (excluding the special case here of WebEx)? - View Results Have you ever participated in a Web Conference like one provided by WebEx, PlaceWare, Raindance, and Genesys (as opposed to a streamed presentation like an analyst investor briefing webcast)? - View Results Do you believe that Microsoft will ultimately marginalize conventional Web Conferencing vendors? - View Results Do you believe that Web Conferencing will obsolete conventional Video Conferencing? - View Results Do you believe that prepackaged CD sales will once again start to grow as the RIAA lawsuits against computer users leads to reduced activity on the P2P networks? - View Results |
