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Movie industry unaware of piracy?

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Just spotted this amusing little quote in an article.

<< The music industry says rampant online piracy has severely damaged recording sales and the movie industry fears the same could happen to it as computers become more powerful. >>

What world do they live in? Full article here.
 
They probably don't care too much about it yet but are starting to get concerned. Remember, you can download mp3's on a 56k. Good luck getting movies on grandmas p200 with a 56k modem. Also, a lot more people care about music than movies online.
 


<< Just spotted this amusing little quote in an article.

<< The music industry says rampant online piracy has severely damaged recording sales and the movie industry fears the same could happen to it as computers become more powerful. >>

What world do they live in? Full article here. >>



Btw, the Buma/Stemra is about as social and friendly as the KKK. There is a reason for CDs costing 20+ Euros here, and that is them.

Anyway, I presume CNN didn't bother digging up a recent interview with anyone in the movie industry for this, as they also were thinking about sueing Kazaa and such a while ago.
 
If those industry morons would drop the price like was done with pre-recorded VHS movies, they would solve their problem. But they won't budge a dime on those overpriced CD'S.
 
i dunno, playing divx on my wall using my 10 thousand dollar digital light projector doesn't seem to match the movie theater experience🙂
 
The movie industry has far less to worry about. Piracy of movies isn't all that worthwhile. While a movie is in the theaters the only way a person is going to see it without paying is to download some divx recorded by some guy in the movie theater. Lousy video, lousy sound, and the sound of someone munching on popcorn on top of it all. When it comes to video a person can rent it for $2. Why waste time downloading a movie when a person can rent it for less than the cost of a blank dvd.

Movies cost millions to make, and yet they sell them for $10 - $20 and allow rental of them for as little as $2. As time goes by the price of a movie drops.
CDs cost a fraction of a movie, but they sell for $10 - $20 with the average maybe a dollar or two less than a movie. You can't rent an audio cd. As time goes by the price of an audio cd doesn't drop one cent. It actually usually goes up seeing as it's usually on sale when it first comes out.

CDs are way overpriced and everyone knows it. The Riaa turns a blind eye on the fact that consumers don't want to get ripped off and instead of lowering prices they just try to add in stupid copy protection that doesn't stop the pirates and only ends up annoying consumers.
 
Nefro, but how many people actually have projectors in their homes? I remember reading in another article that the movie industry estimated (extremely over exadurated) that they lost hundreds of billions a year in movie sales because of piracy. No idea how they arrived in that conclusion, but whatever.
 


<< The movie industry has far less to worry about. Piracy of movies isn't all that worthwhile. While a movie is in the theaters the only way a person is going to see it without paying is to download some divx recorded by some guy in the movie theater. >>



...or you download the 'For demonstration purposes only - Not for resale, hire or distribution' DVD-rips 🙂
 


<< The movie industry has far less to worry about. Piracy of movies isn't all that worthwhile. While a movie is in the theaters the only way a person is going to see it without paying is to download some divx recorded by some guy in the movie theater. Lousy video, lousy sound, and the sound of someone munching on popcorn on top of it all. When it comes to video a person can rent it for $2. Why waste time downloading a movie when a person can rent it for less than the cost of a blank dvd.

. >>





Where do you live that DVD rentals are 2 bucks?





 


<< Where do you live that DVD rentals are 2 bucks? >>



i live in a country where pirated DVDs cost about 4 bucks each.😉

...they're not too shabby as well. i think they get the film from the roll itself. quite ingenius, but it gets them a lot of money.
 
Oh they're aware, but it's no where as near big as music piracy. Music is easier and sounds damn close if not identical sometimes to the cd, movies (even th best divx) look like crap by my standards. Serious movie watches care about quality and buy their dvds, and dvd sales are constantly on the rise.
If video compression like divx can ever match DVD, by then we'l have high definition stuff that is close to the original master of the movie :Q and easily distributable compression will hard maintaining quality. They don't care about size, they'll just mak bigger storage mediums that can hold more data, hundreds of gigs or terabytes if need be. What are you divx monkeys gonna do then? continue enjoying your substandard quality movies? 😛
 


<< Actually you can "rent" CD's from your local library.

Cheers! >>

You can do the same for DVDs. 😉

The MPAA doesn't have as much to worry about yet. With mp3s, you can get near CD quality sound from the file you download and then it can be played on just about any player. Downloaded movies never reach the quality of DVD (still debatable, I guess) and the ones you can play on a DVD player are only "better than VHS."
 
The last CD I bought was New Town Animals: "Is Your Radio Active?" from Zaxxon Virile Action (small record label). Cost? $9.25 US _SHIPPED_ from BC. They can sell CDs for $9.25, take a $2 hit on shipping, and still make a profit. And they're not copy protected.

If the rest of the industry was like that I'd start buying CDs every other week. It's been months since I bought a CD from a major label. And I have never DL'ed music w/o the author knowing it (except in the case of 3 songs from an album that will never be released, I looked for the CD first)
 
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