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A better title might be, "Killing the internet to preserve the old methods of distribution so segments of the movie industry dont have to adapt." Hollywood is

by jjcm 15y ago

A better title might be, "Killing the internet to preserve the old methods of distribution so segments of the movie industry dont have to adapt." Hollywood is trying to fight against an enemy that they don't understand. They think censoring piracy will stop it, when it's obvious that it wont. Gabe Newell said it best - “In general, we think there is a fundamental misconception about piracy. Piracy is almost always a service problem".

redmethod 15y ago
And meanwhile, people like Louis C.K. are making quite a bit by selling DRM free content on their own. Hopefully, more content providers will learn to adapt to the internet sooner than later.
pstuart 15y ago
Hollywood said the VCR would kill them. Then they said the DVD would kill them. They don't have the best track record in this regard...
- ra 15y ago
  Just like home taping killed music
bad_user 15y ago
Their arguments are also pretty inconsistent. They complain about piracy, yet Avatar, a movie released in the age of piracy, is the highest-grossing movie of all time. They aren't afraid of loses from piracy, instead they are afraid that they'll have to start producing quality content instead of dumb movies like Jeniffer's Body, Jack and Jill, Season of the Witch, Red Riding Hood and Shark Night.
- yeswecan 15y ago
  I would hardly call Jennifer's Body a dumb movie.
  - iso8859-1 15y ago
    It is certainly dumb compared to the movie they ripped off (Carrie).
- rmc 15y ago
  They aren't afraid of loses from piracy I wonder if they have drank their own Kool-Aid. Maybe they actually believe they could double their revenue if it wasn't for the pirates. Do they actually believe that every pirated film is a lost sale? If this is how they think, then their behaviour w.r.t. SOPA et al. makes sense. They could double their profits!
- bitcracker 15y ago
  I think they are afraid of Youtube, and they are even afraid of becoming obsolete. I think this is the real reason for SOPA. What happened through the Opensource movement is beginning to repeat in the movie industry. Twenty years ago Big Blue, Cray et.al. laughed at Linux and GNU. Now Linux has gained world domination in the mobile market (Android), and now Linux is leading the TOP 500 supercomputer list. http://www.top500.org/list/2011/11/100 http://www.top500.org/list/2011/11/100 I think the same phenomeon is starting right now in the movie industry. Private people produce massive amounts of short movies with low quality. But in the long run I believe they will produce high quality movies which will eventually compete with Hollywood standards. With suitable software and upcoming PCs with multicore processors and possibly TB of RAM it is not an illusion that even a single person could produce movies which match Hollywood standard. Look at StarWars Revelations. This video was produced in 2005: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars:_Revelations http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars:_Revelations
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by jjcm 15y ago

redmethod 15y ago

And meanwhile, people like Louis C.K. are making quite a bit by selling DRM free content on their own. Hopefully, more content providers will learn to adapt to the internet sooner than later.

pstuart 15y ago

Hollywood said the VCR would kill them. Then they said the DVD would kill them. They don't have the best track record in this regard...

ra 15y ago
Just like home taping killed music

bad_user 15y ago

Their arguments are also pretty inconsistent. They complain about piracy, yet Avatar, a movie released in the age of piracy, is the highest-grossing movie of all time. They aren't afraid of loses from piracy, instead they are afraid that they'll have to start producing quality content instead of dumb movies like Jeniffer's Body, Jack and Jill, Season of the Witch, Red Riding Hood and Shark Night.

yeswecan 15y ago
I would hardly call Jennifer's Body a dumb movie.
- iso8859-1 15y ago
  It is certainly dumb compared to the movie they ripped off (Carrie).
rmc 15y ago
They aren't afraid of loses from piracy I wonder if they have drank their own Kool-Aid. Maybe they actually believe they could double their revenue if it wasn't for the pirates. Do they actually believe that every pirated film is a lost sale? If this is how they think, then their behaviour w.r.t. SOPA et al. makes sense. They could double their profits!
bitcracker 15y ago
I think they are afraid of Youtube, and they are even afraid of becoming obsolete. I think this is the real reason for SOPA. What happened through the Opensource movement is beginning to repeat in the movie industry. Twenty years ago Big Blue, Cray et.al. laughed at Linux and GNU. Now Linux has gained world domination in the mobile market (Android), and now Linux is leading the TOP 500 supercomputer list. http://www.top500.org/list/2011/11/100 http://www.top500.org/list/2011/11/100 I think the same phenomeon is starting right now in the movie industry. Private people produce massive amounts of short movies with low quality. But in the long run I believe they will produce high quality movies which will eventually compete with Hollywood standards. With suitable software and upcoming PCs with multicore processors and possibly TB of RAM it is not an illusion that even a single person could produce movies which match Hollywood standard. Look at StarWars Revelations. This video was produced in 2005: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars:_Revelations http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars:_Revelations

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