Building the Information Marketplace
With HDTV and high-quality sound flowing easily over the NII, home recreation would take a different form … vendors would offer music and video rentals over the NII. Not only would this system be cheaper for individuals … but it would also bring to our ears and eyes an entertainment library thousands if not millions of times richer than any we might own. Artists, too, would be more fairly compensated for their creations, having royalties credited to them automatically.