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What is stopping you from selling a movie you've just downloaded ? The movie industry is a scam !

• ekabod 5y ago
  it would be selling a link to the location of a movie file.
  • fooyc 5y ago
    Which would be better than all streaming platforms today who don't even let you download what you have bought
    • neilalexander 5y ago
      s/bought/licensed/
• jordemort 5y ago
  Nobody is trying to tell me that buying a movie is an investment vehicle, though.
• michaelmrose 5y ago
  A movie requires as input substantial fulfilling meaningful work and produces as output something that people find meaningful. Rendering the output file artificially scarce may itself be bullshit but doing otherwise does leave us with the challenge of how to pay for that work. The price set for enjoyment of that file is set to a value that the majority of people can afford even if they have to wait for it to say hit red box. For some value of sense the movie industry makes some sense. An NFT like a physical baseball card has zero actual utility save for the covetous feeling of ownership itself a mental disease now unmoored from physicality and actuality. It is an opportunity for us to view side by side people who cannot live indoors and in some places get enough to eat with people pouring more money than many people will ever see into abstract unrealized never to be satiated covetous greed that will only pay a return if they can thereafter pawn it off on someone even more foolish in the future.
  • 5040 5y ago
    Prices aren't obvious. Movies are a good example of this. >Surprisingly, during the court battles over the legality of the VCR, the studios began selling their movies on Betamax and VHS—to play on the very devices they were trying to outlaw. Trying to have it both ways, they began selling movies on video cassettes for retail prices up to $100). In 1977, Twentieth Century Fox was the first when they released Patton and MAS*H, which had been in theaters seven years prior, and The Sound of Music, which had its theatrical release in 1965. The first movies on videocassette weren't exactly new releases. Given a family of four could watch a movie at the theater for about $15 in 1977, $100 for a videocassette of the same movie seemed outlandishly expensive. But from the studios' perspective, that was a fair price to own a movie versus the lower price to rent a seat in a theater to watch it. The price Fox set for these first releases became the standard for the industry.
• sgent 5y ago
  Copyright law.