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Sometimes I wonder how movie studios (and music labels) make money. I watch DVD quality new releases, as well as old movies, via sites such as Putlocker or Mega
by rokhayakebe 15y ago
Sometimes I wonder how movie studios (and music labels) make money. I watch DVD quality new releases, as well as old movies, via sites such as Putlocker or Megaupload through 1channel.ch. I think they should simply partners with such sites and figure a way to make money with them. These guys won't stop their business.
- mikegirouard 15y agoI think perhaps it is a "too big to fail" kind of situation. If the judge rules against UMG, it would still be business as usual after the dust settles. Contrast this to if a startup were to pull a stunt like this... I'd guess that you would never hear from them again.
- xer0 15y agoThese laws are written for entities that are "too big to fight." Not us.
- spdy 15y agoThey are too far down the alley so much money was spent on fighting these pirates they wont backdown. This industry rather goes down like a burning ship then starting to cooperate with these "rouge" sites. Look at what they do in the US with SOPA that is what they want and that is where they throw their money at.
- gldalmaso 15y agoI agree. If the industry had spent all that money in rethinking and reshaping their business model to something the consumers actually desired, maybe we'd be in a much nicer state right now.
- ceol 15y ago>Sometimes I wonder how movie studios (and music labels) make money. The vast majority of people get most of their content legally.
- sp332 15y agoYou mean like netflix, hulu, amazon video subscription, spotify, pandora, last.fm, turntable.fm, or all the ad-supported podcasts and blogs out there?
- onemoreact 15y agoConsidering the rate of piracy in China and India, I don't know if that's true.
- pyre 15y agoThe vast majority of people in the target market (i.e. the US). I don't think that the RIAA and MPAA are really targeting China and India... at least not in a heavy way.
- kahirsch 15y ago> I think they should simply partners with such sites and figure a way to make money with them. Oh, is that all? Simply...
- Natsu 15y agoThey're not one of the sites listed in the grandparent post, but YouTube has a program where they share the advertising revenue. Though that would have been even more interesting if they had managed to do that in this case, because they'd be getting revenue for a something they do not own.
- rokhayakebe 15y agoYes.