Posted on 10/21/2009 10:44:28 AM PDT by ShadowAce
Oh gee, less income for the Hollyweird libs. Where’s my box of kleenex?
Like all tech, they’ll have to compete more, their margins will shrink, and they will have to make it up with volume. To do this, they’ll have to put out...dun dun DUUUUUUNNNNN! BETTER CONTENT! You know that that means? No more X-Men 3’s, Hugh Jackman. At least if you’d like to avoid returning to those Strippergram gigs.
How about thanking Obama for making the economy so lousy that people are losing their jobs and can’t afford your over-priced blu-ray discs and thank yourselves for making awful films no one really wants to see and constantly shooting your big mouths off about your leftist politics?
the movie business would be all right even with the pirates if they made movies people wanted to watch.
i have read at free republic and elsewhere that a lot of great iraq/afghan war screenplays have been written since 2001.
but they were never made into movies because some part of them was politically incorrect.
Good. It’s what they get for keeping my beloved childhood shows from me like Father Dowling Mysteries, Shining Time station, etc
Isn’t income redistribution what they voted for?
no matter how much you might hate the studios and some of the fools they employ, the real issue here is intellectual property rights. if it’s okay to steal copyrights, why would it not be okay to steal patents?
some patents are protected by the means to reproduce them. you and i can’t make cpus or transmissions. but that just forces intellectual property into the hands of the very rich. a company the size of general electric can defend its patents. a large publisher can protect its books. that leaves you and i on the sidelines. the small firms that might publish a book we write, or build a product we invent can’t compete with the illicit trade. when they realize that investment is less than return, they stop operating. innovation by small parties is damaged. it hurts us, not them.
“no matter how much you might hate the studios and some of the fools they employ, the real issue here is intellectual property rights. if it’s okay to steal copyrights, why would it not be okay to steal patents?”
Hollywood is neither intellectual or right. Good riddance.
Agreed. One thing many don’t clearly recall is that if the Free in Free enterprise is taken literally, the producers will have absolutely no incentive to produce. As far as film, as bad as it is now, all we’ll be left with are the products of those no talents seeking ten minutes of celebrity. They’ll make the poorest Indie film today look like the collections of Hitchcock, Kubrick, and John Ford.
I have close friends of mine who actually download via bittorrent and I will admit, I saw Pelham 123 when 2 weeks ago as a downloaded product. It’s hard to fathom spending for a DVD unless it’s Blu Ray, but the only positive thing is that:
1) the uploaded films don’t have the “features” version of the DVD..just the film itself.
2) it usually takes more than 4 GB to download the hi-def versions. You’d better have an excellent web connection to DL that big a file.
Post of the day!
Sure they did but good grief, not theirs. LOL
Funny isn’t it how when that redistribution thing affects their income, they aren’t quite so enamored with it.
I have a long and ever growing list of actors I will not watch and certainly would never put any of my money in their pocket. I would rather read than watch most of these overpaid arrogant clowns.
Even with recent “reductions” they’re still on pace for around $10 billion in theatrical money and another $10 billion in DVD sales and about $6 billion in rentals. Hollywood isn’t in that much trouble.
And then there are those of us who simply no longer support the dictator hugging ‘stars’, who put our country down, jet around the world on a whim, and tell us we have to cut our ‘carbon’ footprints!, and cheerlead a dictator in the United States, while supporting and promoting indoctrination.
Yeah, we stopped going to the movies, buying and renting DVD’s....
I think I see a basic misunderstanding of Hulu. It legitimately serves video and makes money through the ads. It’s jointly-owned by Disney (ABC), Fox and NBC.
So we have dumped our Directv that was going to 60.00 a month.
In it’s place, Dad installed a computer with a tv card onto our 52” Plasma.
We watch...
Netflix streaming (12.95 a month) with all the Disney shows and Mythbusters. Added bonus to our 1 disc at a time is Homeschool lessons.
Bedroomedia - one can watch about anything there.
YouTube - Love Steven Crowder, Cooking With Dog and all Japanese Iron Chef episodes.
I watch FoxNews where I can since TikiLive dropped it, but it can be found.
On the side, I hit the RedBox.
We have a BluRay player and don’t use it except for DVDs. So now I’m saving 50.00 a month and not want for anything.
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