Comment The industry should deal with the risk (Score 1) 234
The majority of the movies people download are DVD-rips, thus no longer in theaters. Movies make the vast majority of their money while in theater. Arguing that downloading movies harms the box office is total nonsense. Afterall, the theater offers a service that a heavily-compressed file played on a monitor through some little Altec-Lansing speakers cannot match.
This is not so much the case with home video. The service offered by the industry is the mass replication and distribution of the product. This service can be easily matched by a broadband connection and a good p2p-client.
To expect such high profits from such an insignificant service is ridiculous. Getting the government to form an internet gestapo to protect high profits on such a weak product shows how excessive a pull the industry has with government officials.
If the movie industry was actually threatened by people downloading movies, they would cut distribution of DVD's and VHS's.
You should try to imagine what the movie industry is really trying to accomplish here.
This is not so much the case with home video. The service offered by the industry is the mass replication and distribution of the product. This service can be easily matched by a broadband connection and a good p2p-client.
To expect such high profits from such an insignificant service is ridiculous. Getting the government to form an internet gestapo to protect high profits on such a weak product shows how excessive a pull the industry has with government officials.
If the movie industry was actually threatened by people downloading movies, they would cut distribution of DVD's and VHS's.
You should try to imagine what the movie industry is really trying to accomplish here.
