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All these people here keep on saying how well Amazon protects itself legally. What I don't see anyone saying is that the fact that if Amazon were to rip someon

All these people here keep on saying how well Amazon protects itself legally. What I don't see anyone saying is that the fact that if Amazon were to rip someone off, their reputation would be tarnished. I think what they're doing is actually in genius but I don't think they're going to rip anyone off because bye being able to crowdsource ideas for scripts will help them get the best of both worlds:innovation and relevancy. They got to stay ahead of their competition and get inspired by writers. Do not get me wrong they may screw people over but like Bank of America was warned about its debit card scandal, the other side of the sword can be bad and the last thing Amazon needs is thousands of riders complaining to the Department of Justice or any organization that involves fraud.

objclxt 9y ago
> What I don't see anyone saying is that the fact that if Amazon were to rip someone off, their reputation would be tarnished. Studios screw over writers all the time. There's a reason that screenwriting is strongly unionized. Studios don't care about their reputation with writers, because a) there's always more writers, and b) the films aren't going to get made without the studios. Studios especially don't care about tarnishing their reputation with un-represented writers (i.e, writers without an agent), because all the good writers already have representation.
- fapjacks 9y ago
  Right. They even call it "Hollywood Accounting".