That analogy, and the statement 'most people can only sell something once' has no bearing at all on the issue at hand. If Avengers is available for everyone on

That analogy, and the statement 'most people can only sell something once' has no bearing at all on the issue at hand. If Avengers is available for everyone on pirate.com the day it comes out, then Avengers will make only a few million, not enough to pay for all the costs ... and so it will ever not get made. The same goes for many productions. No revenue -> No production. The amount of upsidedown and sideways logical contortions going on here to avoid that reality is definitely odd - a perpetual feature of HN, I can't fathom exactly what it is but it's predictable.