Internet piracy
Are you ok with it or not?
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I don't feel like I have a firm enough grasp on how it affects the world economically - if I did, I sense that I might dislike it. However, as of now I don't hate it. I think that a lot of TV shows and films wouldn't get seen otherwise because people are being more stingy with their money or, you know, poverty is still a thing. So, not really.
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Not usually a big post deleter, but I did sound like a moron here. Online piracy is fine for a variety of reasons
shareIt has helped destroy mid-budget filmmaking... It helped make the theatrical movie going experience more infantile and less interesting...
All of those iconic genre movies and dramas from the 90s and early 2000s that are not made at a $50 million to 80 million budget but are instead pared down to sub $5 million budgets or not made at all... This is the result of piracy.
Movies like Seven, Pulp Fiction, Heat, What Lies Beneath, Magnolia and such... Cannot be made at that level anymore, in the numbers that they were made...
Online Piracy killed the home rental market and made movies that fail to get a huge opening box office sales uneconomical, as these movies were not able to recoup their cost and build a following through word of mouth by people who rent...
Therefore all movies have to be pre-sold, or have a built-in audience, hence the toy and kids movies that dominate theatrical showings today.
Online Piracy is the worst thing to happen to cinema... It's a testament to cinema and film going culture that proper movies have survived and are still being madr in small numbers, but the effects of piracy have been very negative and probably permenant.
Piracy didn’t do that. Intellectual property did.
shareYou might have a point about the home video market, but you're neglecting the online streaming services, which are grabbing a lot of the mid-budget movies.
More and more people are just skipping the theater experience and 'waiting' for it to show up on Hulu, Netflix, et all. I think that has had a much more drastic effect than the video pirates, which is nowhere near as big as made out. I have one friend who pirates out of a 100, and I live in Silicon Valley, home of computer geeks.
I don't believe the movie studios are getting hit that bad by piracy. I think the music industry has been hit the hardest, ever since the days of Napster. You don't have to buy an entire album to hear one song any longer. You can find it on YouTube and download it in a second.
I was going to say I'm impartial but after reading your post, I'm convinced of piracy's negative impact on the making of film. Thanks for that enlightenment. It's depressing though.
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Change “piracy” to “intellectual property” and you can upgrade that simile to a metaphor.
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