Comment Re:'Piracy' makes the movie business fair... (Score 1) 417
You're absolutely right regarding the 'movie house experience', but what about the DVD sales, and eventually the TV syndication. If you have the movie on your PC are you going to bother buying the DVD (hell just cut your own VCD, I know the quality isn't as good, but I'm not that much of a fanatic about movies - particularly hollywood ones) or even watch it on TV (being annoyed at the stupid editing, and the inconvenient adverts). Whilst downloading movies will simply act as a 'quality filter' for cinemas, it is fair to say that the other distribution will be affected.
The next point to consider is whether this is a bad thing. The initial distribution will probably survive, but we may be seeing the technological end to broadcast TV, and 'hard copy' distribution such as DVDs. Tivo and it's like is already killing TV advertising revenue, and that may be a shame, but it may make space for a new, vibrant, original distribution network, much as TV, and even the cinema were at the appropriate point in history. It is always difficult for the incumbent to accept that technology is changing, and they may be redundant, obviously any individual acts to defend itself when attacked, and corporations act as individuals in this way, but that's the way the world works.
It is sensible to try to influence the world towards the outcome you desire, and that whether concious or not is simply what the MPAA, RIAA, AND the pirates and anti MPAA/RIAA lobby are doing.
Whatever else can be said, it is certain that the outcome will not be fully what either of these groups hope for, and will probably be more dependent upon technology than anything else.
What fun...
The next point to consider is whether this is a bad thing. The initial distribution will probably survive, but we may be seeing the technological end to broadcast TV, and 'hard copy' distribution such as DVDs. Tivo and it's like is already killing TV advertising revenue, and that may be a shame, but it may make space for a new, vibrant, original distribution network, much as TV, and even the cinema were at the appropriate point in history. It is always difficult for the incumbent to accept that technology is changing, and they may be redundant, obviously any individual acts to defend itself when attacked, and corporations act as individuals in this way, but that's the way the world works.
It is sensible to try to influence the world towards the outcome you desire, and that whether concious or not is simply what the MPAA, RIAA, AND the pirates and anti MPAA/RIAA lobby are doing.
Whatever else can be said, it is certain that the outcome will not be fully what either of these groups hope for, and will probably be more dependent upon technology than anything else.
What fun...
