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So do you tell your boss he is free to pay or not pay you based on his mood for the week? And you are Ok with that yes?
by res0nat0r 13y ago
So do you tell your boss he is free to pay or not pay you based on his mood for the week? And you are Ok with that yes?
- humanrebar 13y agoThere's probably a good analogy somewhere, but that isn't it. I don't have a contract with any movie production studio.
- res0nat0r 13y agoActually you do. You pay the price they ask to consume their content, or you don't consume it. Hence why doing so without paying is illegal.
- humanrebar 13y agoI don't have any continuous contractual relationships with any studios like I do with my employer. Maybe Netflix or HBO would qualify, but they don't charge their customer per unit, so it doesn't really apply here either.
- res0nat0r 13y agoThis really is just a sideshow (excuse) to justify watching movies without paying for them. I don't have any contract with my utility companies whom mail me bills every month for using their services, nor do I have one with Kroger when I go buy groceries. I still am obligated to pay both of them for using their services.
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- anonymoushn 13y agoI enjoyed your joke.
- meerita 13y agoSorry, but you're not paying the studio for watching a movie. The cinemas are paying the studios for having the right, to charge, whatever they want for you to consume movies. It's the theathers, the netflixs who put the final consuming price on something, you're just paying them, not the guy who worked in the sound system for that movie, or the guy who made the logo of the movie, he was payed, and for sure, not so equally as everyone in here are claiming to be paid.
- res0nat0r 13y agoThe less people paying to see a movie equals less movies being made, which means less employment for people involved with making movies.
- meerita 13y agoQuite innacurate and narrow. Many movies don't make the weekend. You will see them at some stores for 1 dollar one month later. It's not the users who kill the industry. Actually, in this era more and more tv shows are made because they're a better format than movies and because they're attracting people to consume or pay services. Movies will never dissapear, only the worth making movies will make it and that task would be decided, not by people, but by a middleman. There's more and more music today than ever, and it doesn't cost 20 dollars or require to be in an store to be accessible to anyone.
- res0nat0r 13y agoThe folks in the entertainment business who have seen revenue drop since the 90s when bandwidth and mp3 / video encoding became practical would disagree.
- meerita 13y agoThey've seen drop in dead business models. But they're winning in new areas. See the reports, with the so-called 'piracy' they're winning much more money than in the past. The problem: you want to see a number, like "he sold 20 millons cds". Well, the last sucess history (everyone can't be queen or lady gaga) is Daft Punk: they sold millions of songs by making 'good' music, or music that appealed to people.