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Originally Posted by gideongallery
you missed the point if access shifting was a fair use right
and the movie was released on every medium at the same time
the freebie people could still get it free on the commercial tv station
the dvd/ondemand/movie theater/commercial tv/ release would happen on the same day
no profits from extending the copyright monopoly to medium
but 100% of the content distribution profits would still go to copyright holder.
Which is what the law has always intended anyway.
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For starters a movie that just gets released in the theater will never be released simultaneously on free TV. Not going to happen. There is no way a movie studio is going to spend 200 million dollars making a movie only to give it away on TV.
If they released it simultaneously on DVD/pay-per-view/pay per download etc all at once it might cut some of it down, but I still think there are still a lot of people out there who would still not pay because they simply don't want to and think they are entitled to have it for free.
If it were released in pay-per-view/DVD/paid download at the same time it were released in the theater just about everyone would have access to buy it in some way shape or form, but there would still be a lot of people who wouldn't.