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that's a slippery slope fallacy but movies are generally all priced the same and make up the difference in volume. Nobody pays different ticket prices at the b
by MAGZine 7y ago
that's a slippery slope fallacy but movies are generally all priced the same and make up the difference in volume.
Nobody pays different ticket prices at the box office for blockbusters.
- scarface74 7y agoThey charge the distributors more at both the theaters and for streaming. Also, you didn’t answer the question. Are you okay with the government mandating how other products are distributed?
- MAGZine 7y agolike alcohol, pharmaceuticals, weapons, etc? or like copyrighted works, perhaps? Generally I support a free market approach except for where it's been proven that a free market approach alone won't suffice.
- scarface74 7y agoSo who gets decide whether the free market works? If you’re okay with Disney not being allowed to sale their own content on their own website, how is that different from a band, author, or software developer selling their own content. Between alcohol, pharmaceuticals, weapons, and copyright, one of those four categories is not like the other. Three of those can actively harm people. If you can’t see the latest Disney movie how you want it won’t do too much lasting harm. Would you also be okay if the government mandated that open source software authors must allow their software on iOS even though some people claim that iOS distribution violates the GPL?
- MAGZine 7y agoIf you're going to tell me that the matter of intellectual property laws have never hurt or hindered anyone on any matter, I'm going to have to categorically disagree with you.
- scarface74 7y agoSo not being able to watch TV the way that you want is akin to the damage that guns, drugs, and alcohol can do? You want the government to step in because you can’t watch everything you want on Netflix?