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[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_accounting http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_accounting
by mdturnerphys 12y ago
[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_accounting http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_accounting
- cdolan92 12y agoCrazy. I wonder what the follow up for Stan Lee's lawsuit was
- Torgo 12y agoIn Stan Lee's case, it could be argued it was cosmic justice.
- thret 12y agoUnreal: "A WB receipt was leaked online, showing that the hugely successful movie Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix ended up with a $167 million loss on paper. This is especially unusual, given that the Harry Potter film series is the highest-grossing film series of all time."
- a3n 12y agoAnd these are the people who are trying to police our moral profiles wrt file downloading. It works because they can. They do it because they've figured that out. It's that simple.
- chii 12y agopiracy prevention has not once been about morals, even their very thinly disguised propaganda (ala the "you wouldn't download a car" ads) is basically not about morals, but about profits.