THE END OF MOVIE THEATERS? FCC Will Allow Studios To Send First-Run Films Directly To Consumers..

Deadline ^ | 05/07/10 | Nikke Finke

[OldDeckHand]

The MPAA, which is the Hollywood studios' lobbying organization, just made this announcement about the FCC's very bad decision. I've said it before, and I'll say it again: once again, Big Media shows that it doesn't want to share its profits with anyone else. Today's action allows the major movie studios to undercut the entire process of theatrical release. It would put the struggling cinema chains virtually out of business.

[OldDeckHand]

'And you really haven’t shown me that federal regulation for 90 years has been necessary or authorized."

I have. You're either too obtuse to understand it, or too argumentative to admit it. Without federal regulation of the nation's broadcast spectrum, radio would be a MESS.

If you want to see a country that is absent all federal regulation, take a trip to Haiti. Let me know how it works out for you.

[UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide]

Without federal regulation of the nation's broadcast spectrum, radio would be a MESS.

That would be an argument for a constitutional amendment.
It is not a constitutional justification.
Somehow I think the states and the people, respectively, would have figured out what to do.

If you want to see a country that is absent all federal regulation, take a trip to Haiti.

If you think that is all Haiti needs, you should post that - at DU or Kos.

[OldDeckHand]

" That would be an argument for a constitutional amendment."

What a legal scholar you'd make. You believe that every time a new technology comes along, we need a constitutional amendment so the feds can assert authority - the phone, air travel, nuclear power - all should be the wild west because the Founders forgot to include them in the Constitution. That's brilliant.

You should post that over at the Disney Channel, it's pure fantasy.

[UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide]

You would flunk basic reading if you think you extracted my conclusion to respond to.

You responded to an opening statement that was meant to mock your overall position.

[windcliff]

Art films are cool.

[Oztrich Boy]

Big Popcorn will not allow this.

[LS]

So, even if there is no fight, you like to spend the first 45 minutes of a movie telling people around you to shut up? Seriously, three of the last four movies I went to we had to do that, and while it "worked," it was TOTALLY disruptive. You don't do it instantly, hoping people will behave on their own. So by 20 minutes into the movie, you have to deal with it, having been distracted the whole time. "Sensitive?" Run a poll. See how many people are frustrated and distracted beyond belief by cell phones and texting.

No, quite the contrary, I'd say you apparently have the ability to insulate to the extreme. But trust me, this is one of the MAIN reasons movie theaters are going out of business. It's not just bad movies (that's part of it) and it's not just "we can get it at home"---one reason many people PREFER to get it at home is the rudeness. Other Freepers here, am I right?