"Hollywood" is just people who work as directors, actors, vendors, caterers, producers, truck drivers, lawyers, assistants, etc. They are not "playing" anything - they are merely trying to recoup the enormous costs of entertaining you by trying to prevent you from stealing their copyrighted works.
This is so stupid. Most of the people working in the movie industry are just workers - low-paid actors, technicians, directors, etc. Only the top-paid people make any kind of good money. I bet you'd like to work and toil at your job for months and years and not get a paycheck. That's what it's like being an independent film director in a world where everyone wants their entertainment for free.
The ignorance on this thread is unbelievable. If you have an independent low-budget film worth watching you can see it illegally downloaded tens of thousands of times while you see zero money from paychecks from your distributor, because NO ONE is buying it and stores are returning unsold copies, although somehow thousands and thousands of people are watching it. Try spending half a million dollars of other peoples' money and making almost nothing back, while tens of thousands of people are sharing your movie for free, and then try getting funding for a second project. Not only are they sharing it for free, but they are sharing it for free for years and years, so that even if you have a "cult" film, as I do, you will never see any money. Producers can't afford to continue to pay actors and crew and for locations if no one is willing to pay to see the product, so what you get in the end are two choices - mega-budget Hollywood films, and crappy no-budget films. You are is essence killing the small interesting films that might otherwise get made.
Netflix is not a goldmine for anybody. Netflix pays a flat rate for DVDS with no royalties when a film gets rented, and tiny tiny royalties for downloads that amount to practically zero once the amount is split between the distributors and sub distributors.
If half the people who ate food simply walked into a supermarket and took the food, then the supermarket wold make less money. If doesn't matter if the supermarket still makes money - the fact is that they make less money, and so do the farmers, and the food distributors. You guys are like people who walk into a market and take food, but you call yourselves "borrowers" of the food and not stealers. But you are selfish thieves and you are stealing and there is no way of putting that nicely.
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Borrowers = stealers
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No, stopping piracy is not about control - it's about recouping production costs.
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"Hollywood" is just people who work as directors, actors, vendors, caterers, producers, truck drivers, lawyers, assistants, etc. They are not "playing" anything - they are merely trying to recoup the enormous costs of entertaining you by trying to prevent you from stealing their copyrighted works.
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This is so stupid. Most of the people working in the movie industry are just workers - low-paid actors, technicians, directors, etc. Only the top-paid people make any kind of good money. I bet you'd like to work and toil at your job for months and years and not get a paycheck. That's what it's like being an independent film director in a world where everyone wants their entertainment for free.
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The ignorance on this thread is unbelievable. If you have an independent low-budget film worth watching you can see it illegally downloaded tens of thousands of times while you see zero money from paychecks from your distributor, because NO ONE is buying it and stores are returning unsold copies, although somehow thousands and thousands of people are watching it. Try spending half a million dollars of other peoples' money and making almost nothing back, while tens of thousands of people are sharing your movie for free, and then try getting funding for a second project. Not only are they sharing it for free, but they are sharing it for free for years and years, so that even if you have a "cult" film, as I do, you will never see any money. Producers can't afford to continue to pay actors and crew and for locations if no one is willing to pay to see the product, so what you get in the end are two choices - mega-budget Hollywood films, and crappy no-budget films. You are is essence killing the small interesting films that might otherwise get made.
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Netflix is not a goldmine for anybody. Netflix pays a flat rate for DVDS with no royalties when a film gets rented, and tiny tiny royalties for downloads that amount to practically zero once the amount is split between the distributors and sub distributors.
Here is the REAL story
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/afm-avi-lerner-warns-piracy-747301
If half the people who ate food simply walked into a supermarket and took the food, then the supermarket wold make less money. If doesn't matter if the supermarket still makes money - the fact is that they make less money, and so do the farmers, and the food distributors. You guys are like people who walk into a market and take food, but you call yourselves "borrowers" of the food and not stealers. But you are selfish thieves and you are stealing and there is no way of putting that nicely.